gillpolack @ 2010-04-13T16:03:00

I was pulling together my comments on zombie ancestry and discovered that I made most of them in 2008. My brain must have been pretty much on hold between then and now.

I started off with vast screeds of heated argument (and I've entirely mislaid the major one, where I was exceedingly sarcastic about many peoples' notion of historical nutrition), but by the end of it I simply said to students and on my blogs: "Consider carefully: do you assume that people did stupid things because they lived ...