re: Why do people always say "I didn't evolve from a monkey?"

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Being fatties

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The climate, by all accounts, isn't getting cooler, so getting fatter isn't adapting to anything. Animals put on fat as a means of survival in cooler temperatures. There is very little that our bodies would adapt to now that clothing or other technologies wouldn't address. We don't have to put on fat or body hair to stay warm--we invented clothes. We use fire to do that. We love in insulated shelters with heating to protect us from the cold.

The fattening of America isn't an adaptation to anything.