Keith:

Thanks very much for pointing us to your site.  I have explored just a few
pages.  It is a wonderful contribution.  I will take time to go through the
whole thing.  I think it will be well worth the effort.

Please follow through with your idea about mentioning news items that
illustrate aspects of Evolutionary Fitness.

Good work!

 - Robert.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Thomas [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 8:23 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [EVOLUTIONARY-FITNESS] Evolutionary fitness
>
>
> I have been reading - a little enviously - the lively
> correspondence on
> the Paleofood list.  I'm envious to see things happening over
> there.  But
> I'm also frustrated because the focus on food seems to me to miss the
> point.  I'm also frustrated because the variability in quality of the
> contributions is pretty disappointing at the bottom end.
>
> To me, the principles espoused by Art De Vany in his powerful page at
> http://aris.ss.uci.edu/mbs/personnel/devany/evolutionaryfitness.html
> embrace far more than taking in the right foods and taking
> off the wrong
> fat.  As Art says aphoristically 'take care of the hunter
> gatherer body
> and mind that you carry in that pin-striped suit'.
>
> Evolutionary fitness to me has three planks.  In reverse order of
> importance (but in direct order of popular appeal) they are
> (1)  Paleo food
> (2)  a Paleo activity regime
> (3)  an environment of Pleistocene quality to produce food and provide
> activity opportunities which reproduce most effectively the
> key lifestyle
> characteristics which drove human evolution over the last 5
> million years.
>
> There is so much information to absorb in order to get the
> right balance
> and the right intellectual depth.  Six months ago I started building a
> website to serve as an information hub for people who want to
> learn more
> about evolutionary fitness.  There are plenty of other websites which
> focus on one or two of the three planks, but no others (yet) that
> synthesize all three.
>
> The website is now up, albeit in a 'draft' form.  The project
> took longer
> than I expected and writing some individual pages required me to read
> three or four full-length books before I was satisfied with
> the balance,
> the depth and the clarity.  I'll improve the layout
> progressively, as I
> acquire more web skills.  Check it out at www.evfit.com.
>
> Providing there is no strong disagreement among subscribers to the
> Evolutionary Fitness list, I propose posting here a paragraph
> or two every
> few days listing recent news items which illuminate any of the three
> planks, particularly, those that complement the synthesis of
> the three.
> Let us know what you think.
>
> Warm regards
> Keith
>
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