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To: TigerPaw who wrote (7484)	6/13/2000 10:31:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

there is a neat chapter in Wisdom of the Bones about BMI - body mass indexes(if I recall correctly)- which involve ratios of mass in animals- and humans, in order to grow their brains, lost gut- because they had to keep the ratio in balance, so to feed and grow the expensive organ of a larger brain the gut was shortened and we became carnivores- since carnivores can get rid of all that extra gut herbivores need to process plants, and a carnivore gets a lot more bang per pound of food than an herbivore.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (7484)	6/13/2000 11:19:00 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

That is the theory but it really takes more faith to believe in that than the immaculate conception. Humans cannot predict accurately the weather this afternoon yet we can extrapolate from an old hip bone our history. There are more things in heaven and earth than dreamed of in your theory TM. Years ago a distinguished Colorado professor wrote a treatise about 600 pages long that precisely detailed how you could exit the back door of your house and begin sampling ppb and ppm elements and trace them back to a uranium deposit. The distinguished professor never found a uranium deposit using this theory and neither did anyone else. The problem was you hit a negative anomaly prior to coming to a U orebody which dynamites his theory back to the fuzzy world of professordom.