Yours truly, the indefatigable arguer, has been having an
interesting correspondence with Geoff Bond, the author of
_Natural Eating_.  This book, as you may remember, argues for a low-meat,
low-fat (but not necessarily vegetarian implementation of paleodiet.

I'm finding this to be very interesting, in that Bond bases his argument
mainly on recent genetic studies concerning the ancestry of modern humans.
He dismisses the Neanderthal and Asian homo erectus lineages as irrelevant
and, to my surprise, has decent scientific references in support of doing so
(I'm not surprised about the Neanderthal, since there are few scientists who
still think that they are ancestral to modern humans, but I am surprised
about the various homo erectus lineages). Anyway, the debate is interesting,
and is forcing me to do some
needed homework.

Todd Moody
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Have you read Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall and Jeffery Schwartz? The
authors are two leading paleoanthropologist who have done a recent review of
the hominid fossil record by personally visiting almost every specimen
available. They dispute that humans evolution was a simple progression of a
single lineage from a primitive ancestor to ourselves. So far it is very
absorbing reading.

Mark