... a l'estranger, no speaka de englesh, is cosmopolitan and plain good fun 8. wmd are hilarious when utilized 7. a friend that's dead is cool 6. alt.philosophy cares 5. milking a goat is no better than inbibing indigestible lactose 4 the republican party is sane and sensical 3. mexico's poverty does not much matter 2. the gov of alaska's e-mail order degree is in the flatness of mother earth 1. if the dog is fed at the dinner table, it ...

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:30:40 -0700 (PDT), lsenders@hotmail.com wrote in alt.atheism: On Jun 27, 5:10 pm, John <n...@droffats.ten> wrote: In humans, lactose tolerance is a recent evolutionary mutation. How do you know that this was an evolutionary event and not something that occurred in past generations? Huh? All evolutionary events that have spread to any degree have occurred in past generations.

lsenders@hotmail.com wrote: On Jun 27, 5:10 pm, John <n...@droffats.ten> wrote: In humans, lactose tolerance is a recent evolutionary mutation. How do you know that this was an evolutionary event and not something that occurred in past generations? Well, ya got me there. I should have pointed to authoritative literature and time permitting, I will. In the meantime, let's toss that one. Fair is fair. And without getting ...

... life forms. Most mutations are undetectable (null) or if they are evinced and not null, then they are usually fatal. However, there are recent mutations that have survived and flourished. In humans, lactose tolerance is a recent evolutionary mutation. There is a now-famous Italian family that is practically immune to atherosclerosis. Wouldn't many of us like that mutation in our line? How about Sickle-cell...

On Jun 27, 5:10 pm, John <n...@droffats.ten> wrote: In humans, lactose tolerance is a recent evolutionary mutation. How do you know that this was an evolutionary event and not something that occurred in past generations?

..., not higher life forms. Most mutations are undetectable (null) or if they are evinced and not null, then they are usually fatal. However, there are recent mutations that have survived and flourished. In humans, lactose tolerance is a recent evolutionary mutation. There is a now-famous Italian family that is practically immune to atherosclerosis. Wouldn't many of us like that mutation in our line? How about Sickle-cell? Yes, it ...

...in the region of 5000 years is the evolution of lactose tolerance. Men have owned kine for less than 10 000... milk them, or did milk them but fermented the lactose and drunk sour milk or ate cheese. The ability ... evolved. What is the background natural level of adult lactose tolerance for people who have never had kine, like...of background mutations, or people could not have evolved lactose tolerance! Over just a few millennia, the very few...

... might have been made possible by a beneficial genetic mutation for "lactose tolerance." This allows many adults in this region to drink milk ... their language and spread their useful gene. By the way, a "lactose tolerance-centric" theory of world history was put forward by the ... the type of European agricultural society made possible by the evolution of lactose tolerance. In contrast, John Tooby, co-founder of evolutionary psychology with...

..."selected" the biggest people from africa, not to mention the selection due to the severe trip on the ships. Some say a speeded up cultural evolution moving into the body/genes is how Europeans can digest milk lactose, then there is the superior math abilities of Asians and what about how Jews were ruthlessly selected and were forced to wander and trade for thousands of years when trading was looked down on but now they have ...

... "selected" the biggest people from africa, not to mention the selection due to the severe trip on the ships. Some say a speeded up cultural evolution moving into the body/genes is how Europeans can digest milk lactose, then there is the superior math abilities of Asians and what about how Jews were ruthlessly selected and were forced to wander and trade for thousands of years when trading was looked down on but now they have these skills ...