How did food evolve?

These just represent my own person opinions:The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins: an absolutely horrible book. He's not a theologian or a student of religion or even of psychology. The book is just an extended uninformed rant. The book attempts to make the point that those who believe in God are operating under a delusion, and while there are valid ways to make this point, Dawkins doesn't manage to stumble across many of them.Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: excellent book, one of the better introductions to evolutionary theory, but it is very detailed and spends much time reviewing voluminous amounts of evidence and is not for everyone.The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins: this time the author writes about things he knows, and this is an excellent book, but Dawkins is abrasive and brusque when talking about creationism, and I wouldn't recommend this book to you, even though it's full of useful information.Perhaps someone can recommend something that's balanced and not too long or detailed.--Percy

I didn't want to get into a discussion about Dawkins' book. As I said, it's just my personal opinion. It's not about food evolution, anyway, nor even a cookbook! --Percy

I don't think a digression into The God Delusion would be appropriate for a thread about the evolution of food, but more importantly, I think you've lost track of how it was introduced into the discussion. WS-JW asked if people thought The God Delusion was "a good read or not so good," and I gave him my opinion and told him why. Just because you have a different opinion doesn't mean we can hijack this thread into a discussion of the book. If you think it's a book he should read then go ahead and tell him what you liked about it, though to me it seems a sure why to alienate a sincere Christian. Heck, I'm not even a Christian and I was alienated. Even friends and colleagues of Dawkins have lamented the book.--Percy

I've been envying you your missing wisdom teeth all these years, but now the tally evens up! My sister is allergic to bee stings, I know how bad that can be. I, on the other hand, am fairly insensitive to bee and wasp stings, they're like mosquito bites are to most other people. And my mosquito bites disappear within 15 or 20 minutes. I have no idea if there's a genetic basis to this, but I would suspect so. I don't know if it's related, but acetaminophen (Tylenol) has no effect on me, either, though I don't think I ever went beyond a double-dose.To top if all off, there's some pheromone that a fair percentage of humans give off that insects use to detect their presence, and lucky me, I'm apparently not one of them! If I'm the only person around then insects have no trouble finding me, but when I'm in a group I'm left pretty much alone.--Percy

This isn't well known, but it's actually the Fantastic Five. Because of the nature of my work here I naturally have to keep a low profile. --Percy

I've never had hayfever that I know of, and certainly not asthma. Any insect bites I get don't usually itch unless I get them on the back of a finger, and they seem to last a bit longer in that location, maybe an hour. I do recall the last bee sting I received. It didn't cause itch or pain, but there was a small bump for a couple days. Black fly bites are the worst, they cause a sizable bump and actually itch for a day or two.I didn't understand the technical portion of your explanation, but I do have a question. Is any of this related to nerve enervation or muscular contraction?--Percy

I've found that both aspirin and naproxen (Alleve) work great.--Percy