Oatmeal Jack replied (perhaps privately?) in relation to my mention of Linus Pauling's article's list of vitamin C content demonstrating early man had a vitamin C-rich diet. "Are you saying humans originated in the Americas? Otherwise how did the original humans get green peppers?" I figured somebody would catch that. No, there was no intention to post that humans originated in the Americas. There is general agreement they did not. Furthermore, there is fairly good evidence there were no green peppers where humans are said to have originated in Africa. Pauling did have green peppers at the top of his list, however. The list contained other fruits and vegetables, some of which could have been available to early humans. George