Oh... I might add... I know corn and rice are paleo no-nos but they were
the first example I could think of.




On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Zack Passman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The plants on South/North America could have relatives left over
> from Pangaea that could be similar enough to carry similar nutritional
> value.  Corn is a cousin of rice for example.
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> Well.. at least that's my take on it.
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> Zack
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> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Geoffrey Purcell <[log in to unmask]
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>> Not necessarily. I mean, if some of those who had emigrated to the New
>> World from Europe 26,000 years ago had then returned to Europe after some
>> more  millenia of adaptation, then presumably, Europeans  would have
>> adapted to New World foods like potatoes. And, of course, since scientific
>> data from the Palaeolithic era is extremely sparse, we might well find, in
>> a few decades, that those dates given were wrong, and that human
>> colonisation of the New World went even further back.
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>> Geoff
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>> "But the big killer here
>> is none of those early paleo people that made it to the New World
>> were our ancestors."
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