Re: SPACE: Going to the moon with shoehorning and bootstrapping

From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 15:53:55 MDT


Dickey, Michael F wrote:
> All animals in the absence of natural predators have a tendancy to increase
> in size. Mega Fauna roamed the north american landscape for eons before
> being wiped out by the first north american continent settlers. There were
> giant elk, gian sloths (the size of large bears) and numerous other huge
> creatures. Think of the size some dinosaurs obtained. Humans are in the
> same situation, not much in the way of natural predators, coupled with the
> drastic increase in available calories during formative years, there is
> bound to be a net increase in the size of people. The increase has been
> occuring since the onset of agriculture and will likely continue until
> genetic manipulation steps in.

I thought it was clear that agriculture reduced the size of humans
at first?

-- 
Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com>
"Congress keeps telling me I ain't causin' nuthin' but problems
and now they're sayin' I'm in trouble with the government;
I'm lovin' it" -- Eminem


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