Comments on: Paleo In a Nutshell http://www.TRANSFORMetics.com/2010/01/paleo-in-a-nutshell/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:34:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Nathan http://www.TRANSFORMetics.com/2010/01/paleo-in-a-nutshell/#comment-978 Nathan Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:08:15 +0000 http://www.TRANSFORMetics.com/?p=874#comment-978 The paleo diet may well be more healthy than the standard american diet--no doubt this is very likely--but the evolutionary reasoning provided in these videos is awful. Here are some relevant articles to understanding why you can't simply infer what we were adapted to do on such scanty grounds as the conditions in which we survived. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_%28biology%29 http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/03_Areas/evolution/perspectives/Gould_Lewontin_1979.shtml The paleo diet may well be more healthy than the standard american diet–no doubt this is very likely–but the evolutionary reasoning provided in these videos is awful. Here are some relevant articles to understanding why you can’t simply infer what we were adapted to do on such scanty grounds as the conditions in which we survived.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_%28biology%29
http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/03_Areas/evolution/perspectives/Gould_Lewontin_1979.shtml

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