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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Michael Audette wrote:
> Find me a natural spot on earth where nuts are as plentiful as you say.
See Loren Cordain's comments on the !Kung at
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind9703&L=paleodiet&P=R2115
> Also, what grocery store do you gather in?
It varies. Why do you ask?
Your first question, and other recent comments, raise an
interesting point that is not really developed in Neanderthin to
any great extent. On the assumption that hunter-gatherers adapt
to various ecological niches, it may not work well to think in
terms of *generic* h-gs, but rather in terms of *specific* ones.
That is, to eat lots and lots of meat because the Inuit eat lots
and lots of meat may be an oversimplification. The Inuit have
had centuries to work out the details of their nutrition, and we
should perhaps not judge too quickly which details are relevant
and which aren't. The Inuit eat certain meats, but not others,
prepared in certain ways, and so forth. Their good health may be
as much a product of the details of their way of eating as the
general fact that they eat a lot of meat.
When we combine aspects of what the Inuit do with aspects of what
the Plains Indians did, with aspects of what Polynesian islanders
do, with aspects of what other primates do, with aspects of what
African savanna-dwellers did --- perhaps we could be getting into
trouble.
Todd Moody
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