At 12:20 PM 8/21/2003 -0400, Zac Gochenour wrote:
Horses, though, are much more valuable for their mobility. An interesting
tidbit: equestrian foraging developed as a subsistence pattern for the
natives in the Great Plains and Argentina. These foragers acquired horses
from the Spanish in the
OK, but then the question applies to transportation. Can a horse
really move as much as ten people, or is it that they can eat
foods that are cheaper than food humans can live on?
The fact that a horse can consume and digest grasses is a contributing factor, but
definitely not the whole
Robin Hanson wrote:
. . . it has come to my attention that a horse weighs
about ten times as much as a human. It would seem that
horses would eat about ten times as much as a human, . . .
Quibble: appetite does not scale linearly with mass; some very small
animals eat their own weight daily,
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Bryan Caplan wrote:
That seems to water down the Principle to complete irrelevance, doesn't
it?
Well, the notion that life is very unlikely, but happened on earth
through sheer chance, does not require that earth is special in
any fundamental physical sense.
If it says
