Subject: Re: Steve Jobs's Diet From: Geoffrey Purcell <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:36:38 +0100 > it's just not correct to state that humans never > got cancer in hunter-gatherer days. No one on this list made that claim, Geoffrey. The implication I took from Don's post was that the incidence of cancer was a characteristic of civilization. As I read it, Don was not claiming that hunter-gatherers, Palaeolithic humans or wild animals were cancer-free. Keith