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Kathy Dettwyler <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 9 Jan 2000 13:29:17 -0600
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>My husband is an Ambulance Officer and in his training (2 years ago) one of
>the lecturer used breastfeeding as an example or evolution!!! He contended
>that women were no longer capable of breastfeeding as easily because they
>had 'moved on' in evolutionary terms they had lost the ability to
>breastfeeding because it was no longer necessary.

This level of ignorance about how evolution works (not to mention basic
biology) is truly scary.

Kathy Dettwyler, who teaches evolution for a living

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