[Jaguarbhzrd]

For those of you that don't know what he is talking about, Absorbic acid is vitamin C.

The stuff you get from fruit, and since our ancestors ate a whole lot of fruit, creating it ourselves didn't matter, so the gene that allowed us to create vitamin C on our own, was shut off, and didn't make a bit of difference.

[muawiyah]

It didn't? Did you realize that mankind could not penetrate to the far North until he'd learned how to eat seal blubber (which is full of vitamin c).

Frankly, there are much better things to do.