On Fri, 9 May 2008 21:09:01 +0100, Geoffrey Purcell <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

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>The Paleolithic diet actually doesn't contain any tubers or starchy foods, so potatoes should definitely have been banned from the study.
>  It's true that modern hunter-gatherers eat tubers (and even some fermented grains or raw dairy), 
>but one has to remember that these are Neolithic-era  hunter-gatherers, so don't  have the same diet as their ancestors in the Palaeolithic. 

If you search the archives of this list for "Wrangham", you will find some
papers and discussions about how tubers were an important part of the diet of
Paleolithic humans, and how cooking is far older than originally thought, in
fact as old as "humans", and how cooking was important in the development and
advancement of human beings.

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Cheers,

Ken