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> The Los Angeles Times
>
> Eight genes helped humans add flesh to their diets
> while limiting its hazards, scientists report.
>
>
> By Rosie Mestel, Times Staff Writer
>
> Chomping too many fatty steaks is unhealthy for the
> heart - but the consequences would be worse if human
> beings hadn't evolved special, "meat-adaptive" genes to
> help manage saturated fat, cholesterol and other
> hazards of meat-eating, according to two USC scientists.
>
> In a paper published last week in The Quarterly Review
> of Biology, biologist Caleb E. Finch and anthropologist
> Craig Stanford said they had identified at least eight
> genes that might have been key to this important
> development in human evolution.
>
> Human ancestors probably began eating meat 2.5 million
> years ago, anthropologists say. In contrast, only the
> chimps among our nearest relatives, the greater apes,
> eat meat - and then only a fraction of what humans do.
>
> In lab studies or in zoos, apes' cholesterol levels
> climb more sharply than do humans' when fed fat, and
> the animals are more prone to blockages in their
> coronary arteries. Zoos now know to feed the animals
> leaner diets.
>
> "Even though we have this idea that we are
> hypersensitive to cholesterol and fat, the fact is that
> humans as a species are relatively immune to the
> harmful effects of these things," Stanford said.
>
> To pinpoint possible meat-adaptive genes, Finch
> searched databases and identified eight genes that
> differed between chimps and humans and which may have
> had a role in making us meat-tolerant.
>
> One of the genes is called apoE. A particular form of
> that gene, known as apoE3, evolved in humans some time
> after the divergence of humans from chimps. ApoE3 is
> known to help protect human beings against heart
> disease. It also protects against Alzheimer's disease.
>
> Finch and Stanford propose that such genes enabled
> human beings to live longer lives without coming down
> with chronic diseases: Humans live about 30 years
> longer than great apes.
>
> The scientists identified seven other genes that they
> thought helped protect people against infectious agents
> carried in meat or against an overdose of iron and
> other metals that are relatively abundant in flesh
> compared with plants.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2vj2o

Hey, Larry! Larry "Loser" Forti! You asshole - haven't you
maintained, in your utter IGNORANCE of science, that there is no
genetic adaptation in humans for meat eating? Yet here we see REAL
scientists - not risible, science-illiterate polemicists like you -
publishing a PEER-REVIEWED article that asserts there is indeed a
genetic adaptation in humans for meat eating.

Are you going to admit you were wrong, Loser Larry? Not just wrong,
but *knowingly* ignorant? You didn't know ANYTHING about whether or
not there is a genetic adaptation in humans for eating meat, Lying
Loser Larry; you were just running your ignorant mouth.