[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[Christian Brunschen]

On 10 Dec 2007, at 23:37, Patrick Coskren wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Stefano Mori wrote:
>> Why does life tend to
>> adapt rather than die?
>
> It dies all the time.

Indeed. Look at the different levels of lactose (in)tolerance in  
different ethnic groups. One sometimes hears things like "Due to the  
reliance on milk in their diet, Scandinavian people developed a high  
lactose tolerance". But this is really just a different way if saying  
"Due to a high lactose content in their diet, Scandinavian people who  
had a lower lactose tolerance were more unwell and/or dies younger  
than people with higher lactose tolerance - who were the ones  
managing to get offspring, so the lactose-tolerance genes were  
perpetuated". Or shorter, "If you were lactose intolerant, you were  
culled from the gene pool. Sorry!"

> -Patrick

// Christian Brunschen