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|    Aquatic Ape: Your Seaside Ancestor!    |
|    20 Sep 25 16:17:07    |
      XPost: alt.atheism, alt.paranormal, alt.conspiracy       XPost: alt.religion.christian.christian       From: jtem01@gmail.com              DHA.              Know what it is?              Google it.              It's literally "Brain food."              It's an Omega-3, and "Essential" fatty acid.              Google the word "Essential," if you're uncertain.              Humans need DHA if we want large, intelligent brains and our       bodies have the ability to synthesize it. But...              But we're lousy at synthesizing DHA, men worse than women.              (Probably because woman are the ones who bear children so       it's more important for them)              AND, now get this, the people who claim to be able to       determine dates from DNA -- molecular dating -- say that       the mutation which arose allowing for improved synthesis       is DNA (which, though improved, still sucks) is on the       other of 80,000 years old.              That's not very old.              Humans -- the genus Homo -- date back at least 2.5 million       years, approximately. We are usually said to begin with       Homo habilis...              So for the vast majority of the existence of humans -- even       so called MODERN humans, by the reckoning pale anthropology       (which is a fake science) -- we lacked this mutation allowing       for the "Improved" synthesis of DHA... "Improved" but still       quite sucky.              This is stupid. DHA is necessary -- "Essential" -- and we       can't have our big, intelligent brains without it, yet we       are totally shitty at synthesizing it AND as bad as we are       at synthesizing it, FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR HISTORY we       were a lot, Lot, LOT worse!              Clearly we needed to be getting our DHA from somewhere, our       ancestors, and that somewhere is the marine environment.              DHA is abundant in sea food. Even sea foods with very little       DHA appear as ABUNDANT in comparison to terrestrial sources.               ...things like shrimp, for instance.              Do the Google: Foods rich in DHA              So there's two competing theories on human development.              #1. African savanna nonsense.              This is where an ancestor fell out of a tree, stumbled upon       a savanna and immediately stood upright and grew a big brain       though it lacked the DHA necessary to do so.              #2. Aquatic Ape Theory              This is where our ancestors began exploiting marine resources,       very high in protein, a very great source for ESSENTIAL fatty       acids, and then acquired adaptations that allowed them to take       advantage of this diet.              There's more, there's a lot more but you honestly don't need       to get any further than DHA to see the need for an Aquatic Ape       ancestor.                                                                                                         --       https://jtem.tumblr.com/tagged/The%20Book%20of%20JTEM/page/5              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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