From: Jed Rothwell
* Seriously, that is the claim. It does make it easy to confirm. If, in fact, he did not urinate the whole time then obviously we are looking at an extreme anomaly. People have gone for long periods without drinking -- although I do not think anyone has ever gone for 2 weeks -- but no one can survive without eliminating waste with urination. In the FWIW department, there is a series of YouTube videos on using urea as an active electrolyte in Brown's Gas type cells. This indicates that urea can be easily broken down at lower than the published potential. Perhaps something like this has been incorporated into the biochemistry of certain individuals. Not to mention recycling the water from the kidneys, and being able to remove moisture from humid air via the lungs. There could event have been an event in human history that "selected" for this particular set of survival traits. Analysis of human DNA suggests that there was natural "bottleneck" in human population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck The entire population of the human race can be traced a single individual who lived - not 3-4 billion years ago, when homo sapiens split from homo erectus, but instead only ~70,000 years ago. There was likely to have been a catastrophic event at that time which wiped out 99.99% of all humans. Perhaps the few survivors manage to live for extended periods on no food or water and this evolutionary trait survives. In a quirk of statistics, although all human can be traced back to this single "eve" in fact the catastrophe may have left a few thousand human survivors, but "eve's" direct lineage succeed thereafter in becoming dominant . enough to statistically erase all traces of the others. Wiki: "This is consistent with the Toba catastrophe theory which suggests that a bottleneck of the human population occurred c. 70,000 years ago . the human population was reduced to ~15,000 individuals when the Toba supervolcano in Indonesia erupted and triggered a major environmental change. The theory is based on geological evidences of sudden climate change." Jones
