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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:12 PM Original message |
Modern Humans Are “So Big And Robust That Ancestors Seem Unrecognizable |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. Careful here. This sounds sort of evolutionary to me! |
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sueragingroz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Injecting large amounts of HGN in Cows milk |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
2. Two relatively-recent developments may explain it: |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:24 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. You probably are right. Quality of life might have a lot to do with |
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Johnyawl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. beer is NOT a recent developement |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
3. actually from a book that I read about the year 1000, humans only |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. In the year 1000 |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:05 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. you might want to check the book out...just because it was in the past |
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theanarch (523 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:13 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. i am reminded of something Gore Vidal wrote or said |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:15 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. which is not true. |
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theanarch (523 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:23 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. simply out of intellectual curiosity... |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:18 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Found this for ya! |
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theanarch (523 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:51 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. thank you... |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:20 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. after reading some of the reviews... |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:26 PM Response to Reply #19 |
28. Well you said: |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
30. No they were small |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 08:13 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. He was six foot three. Better fed makes you bigger. |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 09:24 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. yep. |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. and yet we are told |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. I think we eat too much meat. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. I think we eat too much junk and not enough meat! |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. I guess different strokes for different folks. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-31-06 02:20 AM Response to Reply #25 |
37. And I am jealous . I would live on bagels and potatoes if I had a choice |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:53 PM Response to Reply #16 |
31. We may |
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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. I remember watching a documentary on |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 06:14 PM Response to Reply #6 |
26. Growing up I used to go to |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
9. "even the human mind seems improved" |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Yes, but still, how many people today can read. People were mostly |
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Samurai_Writer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
10. Compare from 1890s and 1905 to today. |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Condolences... |
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Elidor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
11. "The average I.Q. has been increasing for decades..." |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
13. I blame Ray Kroc... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
14. This is reversing in the US |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
23. What the article's POINT was: sickness in our 1st two years or in womb |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
33. One possible factor that the article didn't mention is |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
34. I read somewhere that Marilyn Monroe was a size 16 |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 09:34 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. a 16 then would be a 12 now |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-31-06 02:23 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. Clothes were cut smaller.In high school when I sewed I wore a 9/10. |
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