millions of years the human body has evolved and changed in order to adapt to changing environments. But the problem is that ever since we developed language, our cultural systems have exploded. The rate at which our culture has become more and more complex is unprecedented. Through our enormous intellect and our cultural ability to share knowledge, we have founds way to adapt to harsh and changing environments without the need of evolution. And this presents a problem. As presented in the first paper, most Western mothers no longer breast feed, but instead use a bottle and often replace the breast milk with formula. This was a very interesting article, as it gave a lot of facts and figures, and I can honestly say that, thanks to this article, my children will probably be breast fed. However, I think this article makes too many generalized conclusions. It “markets” breast feeding as the “end-all cure-all”, a sort of miracle tonic. If you took everything in it at face......
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