[sinanju]

So the vegans were right?

We all gotta do tofu and bean sprouts after all?

[GraniteStateConservative]

fyi...

might be of interest ping.

[savedbygrace]

I call BS.

[Cicero]

Oh, well. If I die a bit earlier, it was worth it.

[calex59]

I knew that some whacked out liberal vegan would come up with something to prove eating red meat did us great harm. Just as they found a “gene” for being a queer now we have a molecule that gives us aids because we eat red meat. It’s seems strange to me that mostly gays and drug users get aids, does that meant the rest of us don’t eat meat?

[djf]

I do quite a bit of technical reading - Pubmed Journals and abstracts, computer technical doc, arXiv stuff...

Roger Highfield explains more...

He didn’t explain squat to me! Anybody have the version that was written for non-stoners?

[dalereed]

More mush oozing out from between the ears of a professor

[caveat emptor]

If the mutation that kept us producing Neu5Ac rather than Neu5Gc helped shrug off a particular disease, it would have spread rapidly through the population. It is ironic that what may have protected our ancestors then could be responsible for much of the pain of their long-lived descendants.

That's the last paragraph. Well, if the mutation that kept us producing Neu5Ac helped shrug off a particular disease, then it would have spread rapidly through the population.

That doesn't make sense. A mutation, unlike an infection, doesn't just spread through a population.

Or how about this? Show us "a particular disease" that Neu5Ac might have helped our ancestors "shrug off". Somebody help me out here.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Big brains arose twice in higher primates
American Museum of Natural History | Jul 9, 2008 | Unknown
Posted on 07/09/2008 9:12:45 AM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2042948/posts

[RightWhale]

Something genetic in half the caucasians causes them to metabolize TB medication of some kind very slowly, which means they can take much lower doses for the same result.