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"Random testing with no controls, oversight or monitoring is" how we arrived at the current human diet.

• cracell 13y ago
  But on many orders of magnitude larger than 100 people.
• tossacct 13y ago
  controls = natural selection, survival of the fittest oversight, monitoring = culture, language, history Science has the potential to speed up the process of knowledge acquisition. Our current human diet is the result of thousands of years of trial and error. A scientist attempts to follow cause and effect, minimizing confounding variables that obscure cause and effect. http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_variables.shtml http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_...
  • esrauch 13y ago
    How much does the current diet have in common with two or even one generation ago?
    • tossacct 13y ago
      Some cultures have retained traditional diets, some cultures have not retained traditional diets.d