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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:03:14 EST
Subject: Adaptive Vitamin C Deficiency

Explaining to a friend about Vitamin C's history  in primates yesterday led 
me to the Biologist501 Theory of  Adaptive Vitamin C Deficiency in Primate 

Evolution" just now. Here  goes: The loss of endogenous C production millions of

years ago was  evolutionarily adaptive.  This mutation weeded out the aging  to
leave more resources for the young (of reproductive age) and  resources to 

care for the offspring.  As Henry Kissinger famously  commented about modern day
Americans in the global economy years  ago: "Useless eaters."
 
(Sure, it has probably been postulated before.  I could Google  it.  But 
until then, I will semi-bask.)
 
Biologist501



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