http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/iron-brothers/evolution-revolution-my-mani festo/

Great article, thanks Backarcher.

For someone who's been on a paleodiet for the last 12 years, I love this kind of stuff.

Tim,
On the topic of Paleo-diets, is there books you recommend on that. I am getting ready to make some major changes in my diet and I am looking into different approaches. All I know of the Paleo-diet is what I saw on the Wikipedia page on it.

thanks much,
Brian

Hi Brian,

I would look here first, the mother load: http://www.paleodiet.com/

The diet in a nutshell: http://www.nerdheaven.dk/~jevk/paleo_intro.php

One of my favorite books: http://neanderthin.com/site/index.htm

In addition, if you want to read the most important book on nutrition in recent (perhaps modern) times, I highly recommend getting a copy of Gary Taubes "Good Calories Bad Calories."

Nice. Although I love running in a straight line, I made some comments to the article with constructive criticisms. Pasting it here:

Nice article. While agreeing with most of your points (exercises,diet,bare feet), I should warn – even as an evolutionist – not to get carried away with the logic of evolution and natural selection.

Maybe true, the odds are that the strongest and fastest man in the cave has the greatest chance to pass his gene. But within a cave is a community, and things get a bit complicated when it comes to social animals like us. Now the following maybe a high fancy: the fastest straight line runner may not necessarily have the best odds in group situations. Probably when a tiger attack a group, those who are best at suddenly changing direction,roll or climb into a safe place probably have the same odds. There are bushes and other stuff to circumvent, you know.It’s not just plain flat savannah.

Another point: if we didn’t do a certain thing then (eg skating) does not mean we do not have the gene to do it and so should not do it. Genes make proteins, not behaviour (an author whose name I forgot wrote). We may as well do away with BJJ or writing. Nature did not build us like a single-purpose machine. The keywords are ‘make-do’ and ‘compromise’ i.e. take an existing ‘design’ (e.g. ape anatomy) and modify it, as economical as possible, so it can get by in the existing environment. These changes sometimes give us unexpected functions and advantages. Looks like the way we have evolved is to be a species of generalists, so we should not limit ourselves on what we can or can not do based on what our ancestors did.

Hi Tim,
Thanks much for the leads. I will sit down this evening and start having a look.

take care,
Brian