I have been a bit surprised that Herr Höflechner's thought-provoking and well-referenced message of 21 February (see http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind9802&L=paleodiet&P=R334&D=0&H=0&O= T&T=1 ) received no apparent notice by our membership. My reading of the literature would support Höflechner's suggestion, given that the pattern of men doing most of the hunting and women most of the gathering in foraging societies seems to be as close to a universal constant as one can find in human social arrangements. At least that's my reading of the literature. Does anyone have counterexamples or further thoughts on the matter? -=-=- Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Jesus (B.C. 6?-30? A.D.) Dean Esmay -- [log in to unmask] http://www.syndicomm.com/esmay