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That doesn't even make sense. Other than a "god created us this way to test our faith, not evolution" or some similar argument. You'd have to elaborate.

WRT "paleo" I'm talking specifically about applying the same anatomical/digestive/biochemical analysis that works pretty well with any other animal to figure out ideal foods and such. Not "paleo" as a large scale social movement, or as a podcasting/blogging/social media trend subject, which is not as directly evolutionarily relevant.

For example, if you dissect a cow its not hard to figure out its should kick butt WRT eating raw fresh grass. Or dissect a cat and its not hard to figure out its "supposed" to eat mice and mouse size (or smaller) animals. People? Obviously mostly carnivore by design, omnivore as a suboptimal backup plan, although given our horrible ability with vitamin C and such, we're obviously better off eating "some" citrus fruit on a regular basis or other source of vitamin C. Vitamin B retention is legendarily bad too, we're supposed to eat lots of stuff promoting vit B. On the other hand take it easy with sources of vit A and D our innards handle that even worse than wheat and corn.

The analogy is we've been thinking for a long time in vaguely known environments. The evolutionarily "new" environment of offices and desk jobs has the responsibility of explaining why they need special rules different than the past. What made our ancestors successful is probably a good starting point.




>WRT "paleo" I'm talking specifically about applying the same anatomical/digestive/biochemical analysis that works pretty well with any other animal

That has nothing to do with paleo, so forgive me for not guessing that. Paleo specifically means the time period before recorded human history. Dissecting a cow has absolutely nothing to do with paleo anything. Paleo is commonly used as a short hand for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet which is the naturalistic fallacy applied to modern human behavior. It is not supported by evidence.




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