On Wed, 7 May 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
chemicals in the environment today that mimic various hormones which
At 07:48 AM 5/7/03 -0700, Mike Rosing wrote: then cause
imbalances in animals, or, for instance, aluminum suspected in alzhimers.
Missed attribution - I think Harmon wrote that and I quoted him.
Al has been discredited, Alz is inherited, or inevitable if your hydraulics keep you ticking that long (a recent development).
I think it's back to "we don't really know", but we may have a way to slow it down.
"Education" has been increasing, but industrial life means that people can be stupider, because they are more shielded.
See J. Diamond, http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond/diamond_p1.html
Thanks for that, interesting.
It is. Malaria kills 3e6 a year. But that's not 3e6 industrials who die, and its industrials who make it.
3e6 out of 6e9 is pretty small. What's the stats on HIV?
The cigars that indians smoked kept bugs away, and with an aboriginal life span the problems with smoking were insignificant compared to the dangers of bugs.
What is adaptive depends on your environment.
What is your environment creates adaptation.
That probably applies to mental traits like ability to sit still, tolerate presence of others, concentrate on abstract lines of thought etc. 21st century schizoid man.
Yeah, fire did a lot for primates! Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike