Author: Day BrownDay Brown
Date: Aug 15, 2008 20:35
eduart wolf wrote:
> Hello,
> No matter how one defines intelligence, it is an ability developed
> through evolution . At what time did it cease to be of desicive
> evolutionary value, like it is today? My "uneducated guess" is the
> beginning of farming, settlements, complicated social structure, but
> where do I find something about it? Somebody maybe has links/ hints/
> opinions?
Bog body stomachs and bone middens show over 100 wild plants and animals
in the diet. This provided a wide variety of trace minerals from all the
different places food came from.
Neurological research shows traces of iron, copper, manganese, zinc, etc
and the micronutrients plants absorb from the biota of "organic" soils
empower some of the 150+ neurotransmitters to lay down new neural
pathways during learning. But if you try to raise kids on sugar cereals,
junkfood, and soda, then you get alarming rates of autism, ADD, ADHD,
ICD, and other developmental problems as well as legions of neurotics
such as seen in the postings who cannot engage in rational discourse and
turn immediately to ad hominum soon as their delusions are challenged.
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