[xzins]

In our evolutionary past the best way to restore depleted iron was to eat meat. But women were probably not hunters, and so they must have manipulated men with sexual favors to bringing home a blood-soaked dinner. This manipulative move, Dr. Shlain suggests, then set into motion just about every aspect of human behavior.

This is too stupid for words.

Guess this prehistoric vixex had a blood test, and woke up one morning and said, "Hot damn...I'm low on red blood cells. If I can flirt my vegetarian male into killling meat, since I know that that will increase my iron supply due to the recent lab tests that tell me such, then I and my offspring will survive. Hmmmm.....wonder what kind of marinade to use on that meat?"

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

More likely it was a pickles-and-ice-cream cravings kind of thang, xzins.

However, we should always remember St. Camille's classic quote:

"If civilization were left up to women alone, we'd all still be living in grass huts."

[Junior]

Naw, she simply woke up one morning craving red meat. Cravings are a body's way of telling us we're low on something.

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOL! Thanks for the heads up!

[duckbutt]

May not be too far fetched. I know when my period was upon me, I craved protein, and my daughter practically turns into a vampire - - wants steaks and burgers very rare......

[AndrewC]

This is too stupid for words.

Yes, these just-so stories are what happens when preconceptions get in the way.

[ElectricRook]

then I and my offspring will survive.

And what happened to her sister, who had a slightly different genetic makup. And a slightly different thought process. Such as "I'll go on eating this low quality diet". Meanwhile the sister who eats some meat, has the ability to move to a more inhospitable climate, but under-populated with her species. Thats because she and her clan can take advantage of the grass eating ruminants that are able to thrive on the poorer quality food in the grasslands. Even though her species cannot eat the grass directly, they have moved into a new environment. Now two the two populations are seperated by geography. Lets let some time pass. Time passes... (for you Zork fans).

Each clan thrives on different diets, occupying different niches. Are the different clans each adapting to their different environments in different ways? Are these adaptations causing some indviduals to prosper more than the others? Are the adaptations heritable? Hmmm we have a difference within the species. Perhaps the one species has split into two? Naaa. Only God could do that. And God would have to use big tools such as time, biology, geography... And we know that God lives in a very small box, and did not create those kind of things, nor would God use those kind of tools to modify his beings.
/Sarcasm (for those who have trouble seeing it)

[USMMA_83]

Do you know that children of vegitarians, because of lower levels of iron in their blood, resort to eating mud. This has been documented over and over again. It's not like they want to eat mud, it's just that there is something compelling them to eat mud - mud has alot of iron.