Re: AB squad stats


"Norm Fleming" <nfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Uncle Bully" <wakeupcall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Maybe not. Genetics play a big part. The Post-war Baby Boomers were the
>> first generation of humans ever to have more food and rest than they knew
>> what to do with. As a result they were the healthiest and strongest, and
>> therefore had even healthier, stronger kids. What we are seeing now is
>> not just training, it is a modification in human physiology as each new
>> generation comes out. Humans are getting bigger, faster and stronger with
>> each generation.
>
> Have to disagree there Uncle - eating more food and training hard do not
> change your genes,

Eventually they will. Why do you think so herbivores and carnivores differ
so much?

> and acquired characteristics, such as improved physique, are not
> inherited.

Yes they are. Maybe only at a very minimal level, but your offspring are a
combination of your gentics, plus whatever acquired characteristics you
gained. Otherwise you childrend would just be clones of yourself.

> This is pre-Darwinian thinking, man !

It is Darwinism in action. The changes over one or two generations may be
very very small, but it exists.
and in the world of professinal sport, very minor improvements are the
difference between winning and losing.


> But it is the case that each generation is probably much better nourished
> (in many cases overnourished !) from a very early age, so kids grow
> bigger. Then full time professional rugby players, cram on even more mass
> with diet plans, supplements, creatine, weight pumping etc. So the little
> guys are just not around any more, and big lads who would have been
> forwards a generation or two ago are now backs. So, if Gareth Edwards,
> say, had been subjected to all this, he would have looked like Byron
> Kelleher (but of course would still be the far superior player ;).



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