Re: Mitochondrial Mutations May Have Aided Brain Evolution

From: Marc Verhaegen (fa204466_at_skynet.be)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:05:39 +0100

"Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote in message
news:41AB808E.97349369@hotmMOVEail.com...

> > > > Thank you very much, runner down of small antelopes in less than 26
miles. Ever asked why "Humans are an extreme example of this: they have very
large brains and a high quality, energy-dense diet"? By running down small
antelopes in less than 26 miles? :-D Where do you find high-quality
energy-dense food without having to run down small antelopes in less than 26
miles? Where do you find mammals with un expectedly large brains? Yes,
indeed. At the beach. Good answer. Nice boy. :-)

> > > Of course if that is the total answer how do you explain the
demonstrated fact that some humans can run down deer, horses and similar
animals by chasing them for miles until they can't keep running? The ability
to do something like that not only requires conditioning. It requires a lot
of genetic selection in the past. --deowll

> > Yes, see the recent paper on the genetic difference of the Kenyan long
distance runners with other Kenyan & other populations
http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99996705 . This implies
their ancestors were not long-distance runners.

> It implies no such thing.

I does. Why don't you use your brains for just once, Travsky??

Try to follow. If only these populations have ER genes, this means that
other humans don't have them. Okidoki?
______

> Did you bother to read it? The first line
> reads:
>
> The long-distance running prowess of Ethiopia's elite male athletes is
> partly dictated by their genes.

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