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...just a single gene, as many had already done, but a group of genes that represented a key part of a biochemical pathway. He was also motivated by empathy. As a child growing up in war-ravaged Germany, Potrykus and his brothers were often so desperately hungry that they ate what they could steal...
...speak, his throat clutches in gasping spasms. Sharp pains rack his chest; his breath comes in shallow gasps. The vomiting is better today. But constipation has doubled up his knees, and he is too weak to go outside to relieve himself. He can't remember when he last ate. He can't remember how long he's been sick--"a long time, maybe since six months ago." Khumalo knows he has TB, and he believes it is just TB. "I am only thinking of that," he answers when...
...often ate my dinner cold...
...always, the devil is in the details. Obviously, much of what our early ancestors ate must have been good for them. But there's a lot of variation even among today's ever dwindling population of hunter-gatherers. The further back in time we look, the less precise our knowledge of diets becomes. There's controversy among paleoanthropologists about whether meat or the advent of cooking contributed more to our evolutionary success. Two weeks ago, researchers from South Africa and France presented evidence that a major source of protein for early hominids was termites, a food group none...
...Pleistocene diet book declared that we shouldn't eat beans because they have to be cooked before they can be digested. Humans may have been using fire for some 1.6 million years! Other books ban carrots and potatoes because they're "too domesticated"--as if early humans never ate roots or tubers...