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Old 12-December-2007, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by CodeSlinger View Post
Methinks longer lifespans have more to do with better health care and nutrition than self-directed evolution.
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healthcare and knowledge of nutrition are self-directed evolution. Nature didnt grow hospitals and modern medical facilities. We learnt those skills over the last few thousand years...at a far quicker pace than nature could provide similarly scaled genetic benefits over a few thousand years.
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