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<A title=spike66@comcast.net href="mailto:spike66@comcast.net">Spike</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:17
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [extropy-chat] warmer
weather = better wine</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000 size=3>> <SPAN class=754411316-20112003>...</SPAN>We
really are all Africans, we can take the heat a<BR>> lot better than we can
take the cold.<SPAN class=754411316-20112003>..
spike</SPAN><BR><BR>Actually Spike, recent DNA evidence has shown that<BR>most
"westerners" are of central Asian descent.<BR>The central Asian climate can be
very cold in<BR>the winter. So your claim that we can take
the<BR>heat better than we can take the cold may be<BR>on very swampy
ground. I suspect that some<BR>individuals may retain an African
heat tolerance<BR>but that for many others the case is not true<BR>because we
became adapted to other environments.<BR>You are dealing with a very complex
question of<BR>how much energy humans consume and waste (through<BR>burning
it) and it is *not* as simple as you
suggest.<BR><BR>Robert</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=754411316-20112003>Ja,
but that in itself brings up some interesting questions.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=754411316-20112003>The
African shape is generally tall and willowy, whereas</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=754411316-20112003>the
central Asian is short and stocky. For whatever</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=754411316-20112003>reason, humans seem to have chosen the African
build</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=754411316-20112003>as
the ideal of beauty. Evidence: there are medications</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=754411316-20112003>and
treatments available to help people lose weight and</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=754411316-20112003>to
help people gain weight (which don't work, by the way).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=754411316-20112003>The
weight loss products outnumber the weight gain by</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=754411316-20112003>about 50 to 1, as a first order guess.
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=754411316-20112003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=754411316-20112003>People will soon evolve to be taller and thinner,
just by mate</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=754411316-20112003>selection. spike</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>I don't have the information in
front of me, but it is my understanding that we have been growing taller on
average for as long as we have records. Especially over the last several
hundren years. Also, if I remember correctly, our body temperatures have been
increasing a bit as well. I may be wrong on that though.</FONT></DIV>
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