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Re:In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006) by whack on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:47PM (#15973056)
Didn't people in early Hunter-gatherer societies have drastically lower life-expectancy, height and IQ as compared to modern humans living in industrialized nations? Evolution may not value those traits all that much, but we certainly do.
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Re:In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006) by BurningFrog on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:11PM (#15976096)
True, but it's not like diet is the only thing different between their lives and ours.

I think violence, poverty and disease were the bigger factors.

All I'm claiming is that our digestive system is adapted to what we had to eat where our species evolved.

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