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story of life on Earth is a story of starvation, ash from massive volcanoes and asteroids block out the sun, killing the plans, which then killed most everything else. As Darwin pointed out, though, from this war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving a rose. Namely, aw. We are particularly well adapted to prolonged fast. Evolving in a contact of scarcity, is believed to have shaped our exceptional ability to store large amounts of calories when food is available. Of course, now our ability to easily pack on the pounds is leading to Modern diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes. But without the ability to store so much body fat, we may not have made it to tell the tale and it's not just asteroids millions of years ago Go, all of Upper Egypt was dying of hunger. Reason inscription on an Egyptian tomb from about 4,000 years ago to such degree that everyone had come to eating his children, or just hundreds of years ago, parents killed their children and children killed their parents and ate them. The bodies of executed criminals were eagerly snatched from The Gallows wiping out as many as two-thirds of the population of Italy, one third of the population of Paris. We don't have to go back to ancient history, even the most secure and Athlon populations of today. Need only Trace their history. Back. A short distance for example, nearly 200 famines in Britain over the last 2,000 years.