--- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The June 5th issue of _Nature_ has an interesting article by Jared
> Diamond (_Guns, Germs and Steel_) on diabetes. Here's their blurb:
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"coca-colonization" You got to laugh at that!
If Diamond et.al. are correct then we are doing ourselves a great disservice.
We are specializing in a way that generally becomes dangerous for a species.
It is possible to become ~too~ adapted. Shouldn't't the word be spread in
these cultures that the lifestyle they are shifting to causes type 2? We can
avoid the adaption, and retain the very useful thrifty gene.
Jan
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