Sat, Apr-19-08, 21:04
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Plan: PSMF
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Originally Posted by ProteusOne
Exactly. For me it was a synergistic experience, I wanted to try Paleo and the more I gave up dairy and grains, the better I felt, and the more I understood the evolutionary principles behind it.
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There are none.
It is unsupported to say "there hasn't been enough time to adapt to agriculture". Changes in allele frequencies are not determined by time, but heritability and selectivity. This is why we have observed speciation in our lifetimes.
Of course, this fact is not particularly relevant because the notion that evolution is required for a change in diet to become beneficial, and that the new diet is detrimental until such time, is a gross misunderstanding.
Lastly, we haven't the slightest idea what "our ancestors" ate. Current hunter-gathers have varied diets, so there is no reason to think the same was not the case before agriculture. In fact, it is likely that "our ancestors" had more varied diets.
The Paleo/Neanderthin systems seem fine on their own merits without cooking up "oh it's evolutionary and scientific". Actually, if evolution actually worked the way you think it does, aren't you holding back the gene pool by clinging to what you think is a pre-civilization way of eating? While I have no crystal ball, my prediction is that agriculture isn't going away anytime soon.
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