My impression has always been that our H/G ancestors would eat pretty much anything that didn't eat them first.

That's why I'm eating an assload of saltwater taffy today (I brought it back from the beach for my co-workers) -- to save my co-workers from certain sticky death.

Because I'm a giver.

How different we really are, physiologically, from our recent and our distant ancestors, is still a matter of huge debate. There have certainly been some adaptations, like the ability to digest milk and the ability to tolerate grains. Some folks insist that the best, healthiest diet is the diet your own ancestors ate - like, if you're Polynesian, you should be eating coconut and fish, and if you're Asian, you should be eating fish and seaweed and rice, and if you're European you should be eating, I dunno, turnips and borscht.

I don't know where that leaves me. My family migrated too much. I can trace them back to Poland, but my dad did DNA tests that showed we're related to a family from Spain, and the Spanish Jews might have been in Italy first, but in the Middle East before that, and it just gets ridiculous.

this diet coke was clearly about to attck me, so I saved myself. and that thai food earlier, it was plotting.

I a trying not to be a grump today, but AM SUCH A GRUMP. omg I am sick of me.

I was really happy in general for many hours in a row yesterday. today? nsm.

There's plenty of evidence that humans became less healthy with the advent of agriculture, but I don't think you can simplify it that much. Agriculture and civilization go hand in hand; and civilization frequently means the development of classes. The lower class would get the cheapest food, which would be the corn or potatoes grown in mass quantities.

There's certainly evidence that humans ate grains before agriculture. To begin with, why the hell would they go to a lot of trouble to grow better versions of something they didn't eat? Also, there are historical hunter-gatherers that harvested and stored large amounts of grains.

They could have had a fairly steady supply of fruit through the warm months, if they traveled in a circuit based on when different things ripen.

I a trying not to be a grump today, but AM SUCH A GRUMP. omg I am sick of me.

I'd high-five you, but I'm too goddamn cranky. I am really, REALLY glad I said I was working from home today, even if the corporate VPN is thwarting me. Because I am not fit to be out around people. I'm going to sulk with my work laptop and watch every version of Dracula I own.

msbelle, watch NPH's opening number from the Tonys. I want to watch it every day.

I would, for the next fifteen minutes, have to power to smite.

I will smite judiciously, but, seriously QUARTER OF AN HOUR.

cannot see the you tube at work, will watch once at home, or tomorrow, today I may just get dinner and fall asleep.

I am totally good with eating fish and rice and seaweed, but a) I live in the desert. Seriously, it is a long way to any fish that isn't trout. And b) I could afford to eat the carbs of rice if I were a fisherman, who eked out a living by the mercy of the sea and had the resulting lean sinewy build.

Instead I loll around a lot. It is not a rice-conducive lifestyle.