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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer
Lay it on me Flint, what revelations about your body do you garner from studying eating habits.
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That's not what I said. I said I can determine what my eating habits should be, by understadnding evolution.
I can determine what is healthiest for me to eat by understanding what I was designed to eat. I accomplish this by understanding the basic pribciple of evolution, nothing advanced, just the basic principle. By this same token, I can determine what kinds, and what type of exercise are appropriate for an organism of my species. It consists of the daily survival activities that I would have to be participating in, if I weren't sitting in an air-conditioned office and having ready access to nutritionally dense food sources. This example of how evolution enhances your personal decision-making process is the easist to grasp, because it is useful on a day to day basis.
But there are other, perhaps more interesting fields, based on the foundation of understanding evolution. For instance, Evolutionary Psychology - why do we have the type emotional structures we do? And, knowing this, what insights can we gain about ourselves and how we interact with others. Evolution helps us understand that, as well as anything else about oursleves that we explore with that line of reasoning.