Let’s start with sense, since an appreciation for it, if not its application, is the more common. Zookeepers, for instance, rely almost entirely on sense to feed their diverse charges. Common sense, it seems, argues after all for feeding much the same food to the same kind of animal. Do our individual differences, in a departure from all the rest of biology, matter more than our phylogenetic family ties? The fundamentals of the dietary pattern to which we are adapted, and on which we thrive, are indeed common to us all.

Source: Forbes November 25, 2016 14:32 UTC