Re: Marty Gallagher on Diet and Exercise



Jim Janney wrote:


My point is simply that claims that evolution came to a sudden stop
100,000 years ago, or even 10,000 years ago, are not convincing.
There are always selection pressures. And it's easy to find examples
of recent adaptation. I'm still waiting for a non-evolutionary
explanation for lactose tolerance.


Evolution never stops. Evolutionary pressure varies plus the rate of evolution varies. There is NO evolutionary pressure for us to adapt to eating battery chickens or feed lot cattle. None. At all.
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