In a message dated 98-07-10 02:34:15 EDT, you write:

<< Domestic legumes are far different than
 those found in Nature.  In a recent article in Current Anthropology
 "Hominid Food Selection Before Fire" it is pointed out that they are
 almost never eaten by Primates in the wild. >>

I thought wild snow peas were a gorillas favorite...

<<Neoteny is a type of mutation in which juvenale traits are
retained into adulthood.>>

Oh, so that expains me...

<<Domestic cows are much more similar to their wild counterparts than
legumes are.  They also contain less fat than mammouths, mastodons.
ground sloths and other Pleistocene animals we ate to death in the late
Paleolithic era a mere 350 generations ago.>>

Didn't they have a much shorter lifespan than current H/G's?

aaron