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I am posting this for a friend of mine... but I'm also curious to know if anyone out there has more info on the info below... especially a translation on the Methods and Prescriptions for immortality; Qugu-shiqi. (See third link below) Thanks!I am a fan of the Te-Tao-Ching and have a copy of Robert Henrick's translation of the Ma-wang-tui ( Read more... )

Palaeontologists have turned to an unlikely source in a bid to uncover the dietary habits of some of humanity's oldest ancestors. They have studied the teeth of mole rats found in South Africa to bolster the theory that prehistoric hominins may have eaten underground bulbs and tubers, rather than meat or grass.

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Researchers analysing the DNA in Neolithic human remains claim to have uncovered the first direct evidence that modern humans have evolved changes in response to natural selection.

Just 7000 years ago, Europeans were unable to digest milk, according to a new analysis of fossilised bone samples - nowadays more than 90% of this population can.

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Could the humble chickpea have changed the course of history? As one of the founder crops cultivated in the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia, the chickpea's nutritional benefits have been cited as one of the reasons for the rise of civilisation there.

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For many adults in the world, the phrase "got milk?" is quickly followed by "got a nearby toilet?" Lactose, the primary sugar in milk, is a universal favorite in infancy but into adulthood the level of lactase-phlorizin hydrolase, the enzyme that metabolizes lactose in the small intestine, decreases and digestion of dairy products becomes difficult ( Read more... )

The early hominid Paranthropus robustus might not be as specialized an eater as researchers thought. Using a new laser technique, anthropologists peered into the teeth of these hominids to discover that the primate actually ate a variety of foods.

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