This is a fascinating piece of ratiocination which bears the burden of
nearly all efforts to correlate x or y with IQ which is that the latter is a
confection - a confection which comes from consuming confection perhaps? In
any event, the evolution of affection for sweets seems to have produced a
very general sweet tooth. Of course neat sugar was highly rare in evolution.
Now ten dollars will buy a dumpster-full, and the whole world of people with
more than a buck in their pockets are becoming obese. So are we all getting
smarter? From peeling M & Ms?

----- Original Message -----
From: Russell Johnston <russjj@...>
To: <evolutionary-psychology@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 7:12 PM
Subject: [evol-psych] Cavities, Fuel-Efficiency, and IQ Variation


> A recent University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study
> coordinated by Dr. David H. Overstreet, associate professor of
> psychiatry at the UNC-CH School of Medicine and a member of Skipper
> Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies showed "a strong correlation

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