[PatrickHenry]

About the author:
WILLIAM R. LEONARD is a professor of anthropology at Northwestern University. He was born in Jamestown, N.Y., and received his Ph.D. in biological anthropology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1987. The author of more than 80 research articles on nutrition and energetics among contemporary and prehistoric populations, Leonard has studied indigenous agricultural groups in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru and traditional herding populations in central and southern Siberia.

[PatrickHenry]

Another crevo thread.

[MEGoody]

"Thus, in an evolutionary sense, we are very much what we ate."

Well, then why is everyone worried about what we eat now? Our bodies should just evolve to better handle the Big Macs, large fries and giant chocolate shakes.

[js1138]

The sound of the server crashing to its knees under the weight of crevo posts. (slow just now)

My fourth grade health book -- printed during the Pleistocene -- recommended eating a wide variety of foods. Has something changed?

[onedoug]

"And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.' And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them."

...I think is the primary answer, though not necessarily contrary to that posed here, which would theorize some semblance of mechanism.

[Khurkris]

It is well known and long established that civilization occured because of mankinds need to make beer.

[Reeses]

Improved dietary quality alone cannot explain why hominid brains grew

The author completely misses two boats:

1) Our brains as well as other genetic development really took off upon the invention of war, which is in effect high-speed evolution. If you match two tribes together in a battle, the smartest tribe usually wins. That is the reason our brains grew. Darwin knew this, yet modern liberal university professors are in denial because it doesn't fit in with the socialist utopian / narcissistic view of humans.

2) The author didn’t even read Atkin’s diet book, else would have learned that matching calorie intake to calorie consumption is an oversimplification. The author is too deep into the world is flat community that he can’t bring himself to realize he may have been wrong all these years.

[stanz]

Reads like a course in primate morphology. It's interesting to note that Goodall reported that in cases of infanticide and cannibalization of infants by females among wild chimps at Gombe, the infants born to those females weighed more and were larger-brained than infants born to non-cannabalizing females. This is just another example of the correlation between relative brain size and "choicest" diet.

[keithtoo]

Square Peg? (Evolution)

Round Hole? (Reality)

Solution? Bigger Hammer!!! (Creative 'Science')

[APBaer]

And Twinkies will power our trek over the bridge to the 22nd Century.

[SunkenCiv]

Study explores plausibility of bulbs and tubers in the diet of early human ancestors
PhysOrg | Friday, July 25, 2008 | UC Santa Cruz
Posted on 07/25/2008 8:15:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2051557/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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