The Driving Force: Food, Evolution, and the Future

by David Marsh and Michael Crawford

Book Overview

Setting out to examine how food played a determining role in the way in which creatures developed, this book goes on to explore how nutrition is now shaping the future of life on earth. It points to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060390697
• ISBN13: 9780060390693
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What I have been looking for.

I have been a strong advocate of Elaine Morgan's Aquatic Ape Theory and Murray's Sea Energy. This book combines my favorite subjects, e.g., evolution, aquatic ape theory, the energy of the sea water and nutrition. It is the only one of its kind. Yet, it is out of print. I donot understand that. Evolutionist are either blind with their own theories or just getting old. I noticed that terrestrial evolutionists debunk the AAT, while the marine evolutionists tend to accept AAT. I wonder if they also recognize the influence of nutrition on evolution of homo sapiens. Miguel Melgar

Nutritional Factors Challenge Species

A species must have the proper nutrition to thrive, if nutrition changes the species must adapt. Better adapted mutations survive and the species is changed. For other challenges the nutritional support for the adapting mutation must be present. For instance, man must have developed his big brain while he had access to omega 3 fatty acids ---most likely near a lake or the ocean. Today,the IQ in UK is declining to lack of proper nutrition