On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:35:01 -0700, Robbins, Arlene <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> So what were the implications of haveing blood type 0? >> >> regards >> >> Amadeus >> (just a little fond of his celtic-bavarian blood line) >> > Interesting idea. However, I'm 100% prime eastern European Jew >(well, I guess originally more like eastern Mediterranean/North African). > > I don't know what implications being type O has. But when I first >read about the paleo diet, something deep inside me recognized it as >"right". I didn't know my blood type at the time but had heard of the blood >type theory. I took a blood test a fterwards mostly to confirm my >suspicions. > > -Arlene Hello Arlene, I don't know much about predominating blood-groups in people with non middle-european origin because that's my favourite archeological area. I think jewish people tended to mix up very little with other ethnic origins. So maybe blood type 0 might be the dominating in semitic origins also. The jewish/semitic origins - as fas as could be told from from the thora/bible and archeology must be assumed in the middle east exactely the point where european agriculture spread from. So even if blood type A or B came up rather late in history, my impression is that there is no direct connection to the time a person's society spent with or without agriculture in history. I think we have to search for some other reasons if the blood types had different nutrition requirements (waiting for adamos objection:-) ). regards Amadeus