Todd Moody wrote:

> This is adaptation.  Note that it works in the other direction as
> well.  When a population is no longer making extensive use of a
> particular food, lack of tolerance for that food is no longer
> very disadvantageous, so the genes/mutations that cause that
> intolerance can increase.
>

Tolerance and adaptation,
I am puzzled about the use of those two words as almost synonymous. I thought
tolerance was somekind of a resignation of the body (stopping to show the signs of
rebellion) to repetitive aggession... I guess it can be called adaptation, but of a
genetical order, I'm not so sure...

Jacques