Cro-magnon's brain was bigger:
http://phys.org/news187877156.html

"Although scientists don’t know for sure why our overall brains are shrinking, some researchers hypothesize that our brains are becoming more efficient as they grow smaller."
LOL. Extra LOL  Just like modern technology, I guess 

"One idea is that Cro Magnons needed large skulls because of the difficulty in chewing their food, which included lots of meat such as rabbits, foxes, and horses. Since our food has become easier to eat, we don’t need such large skulls or jaws."

Earlier when I was talking about "love thy neighbour" as being a necessary survival trait, I should've specified that I was referring more particularly to the "associate with your neighbour" side of it. So not the philosophical, formulated thought of "love will save us all!" way.
However let us be reminded that in nature, forming "alliances" as a survival, and socially-boosting strategy, happens in a way that has little to do with conscious act. What I mean by this is that the friendship feeling one has for another person, or love, is an unconscious expression of this "associate with thy neighbour" survival instinct. At least in part of it.

So the love you share with your family, and with your friends, has something to do with your unconscious mind forging bonds with other beings to ensure your own survival, through collaboration and mutual assistance. There's more to it in the deep, but at least that's one side of it.

I have to admit, Im quite happy to hear that!
That's pretty cool that you're friends with her.

"Love thy neighbour" is not a survival strategy and is not really a solid part of Nature.

"Love thy neighbour" is a VERY important survival strategy  !!!!
When two solitary male adolescent lions cross each other's way, they will stick together and start displaying behaviors associated with very strong friendship. It can even get to the point of gay love, before they finally find some females or another clan of lions. This "love" urges the two lions to stick together and look after one another, with more ardor and commitment than if they were simply acquaintances.
Alone, these lions would've had a much smaller chance of surviving.

Thus, "love thy neighbour" can sometimes be looked upon as a very important survival tactic.

note: a natural survival tactic rarely is the work of the conscious mind, as we can see in this situation. One lion doesn't decide to love another lion. It's all very intuitive.

I sent an email to Andrew Ucles' main website a while back asking him to post video-recorded proof that what he does on camera is not fake. Quite understandingly there was no follow up to this. However I was looking for other bare-handed catches/hunts videos on youtube, and I found this:

Man Catches Hog with Bare Hands- Where to Find WILD HOGS

(relevant part starting at 1:15)

I highly doubt this is staged.
It's not as big a catch as a deer of course, but it shows how humans are capable of getting their hands on animal meat without the use of technology, if it ever comes to that.

Also notice how "calm" (more like petrified) the animal is. It makes you think that maybe the wild animals caught by Andrew Ucles weren't necessarily drugged. Oh well, one sees only what one wants to see. vvvv

You see why I get fed up, sometimes... 

Absolutely 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110428123931.htm

This explains why Africans have developed greater resistance to malaria compared to Europeans.

I've heard about this.

However it doesn't look like such a "healthy" defensive adaptation against the malaria parasite, IMO. The life expectancy of people with this special blood condition being significantly lower than average...

Is there any other way to protect oneself against the negative outcome of being host to the malaria parasite? As in getting the body to manage it's excessive proliferation, through diet? How do wild animals "manage" it?

If I remember correctly, some instinctos experimented with this, but it didn't end well for them, am I right?

GS, are you sure Europeans are less resistant to malaria than people native to these equatorial regions?
I will look into this, but it doesn't seem totally right...

To begin with French Wikipedia says malaria was present in Northern Europe till the Nineteenth century, when most humid zones and swamps were dried out. That's only two centuries ago, so Europeans must still be at least partly "adapted" to the parasite.

 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paludisme#Europe (For those who read french)

BTW, I heard that malaria disease was able to develop and spread so vastly because of Neolithic man-made humid zones (plant cultures, cutting down forests, water reservoirs...) and other factors linked to Neolithic lifestyle, such as human settlement. Insect-born diseases probably has had a much greater influence on humanity since the beginning of the Neolithic age, than it might've had in prehistorical times.

 "when you don't know where you are going, look back at where you came from"
African proverb.

 

2) you say that "most top atheletes of the world happen to originate from warmer climates" followed by a url to the athletes of the summer olympics. well, no kidding you are going to find alot of atheletes from warmer climates in the summer olympics, if you look at the winter olympics you will notice that the athletes tend to come from colder climates (no duh). that was a rather poor argument; unless you are arguing that  summer athletes are "more athletic" than winter athletes, in which case i'd take it you've never done any cross country skiing...

Okay, first of all any person from any states of this planet can theoretically take part in the "summer Olympics". Unless you live on a 10 meter diameter island in the middle of the pacific, you probably have the possibility to train for a 100 meter sprint, a 400 meter race, or a marathon, and anything in between.
However, there's something missing in warmer regions that makes it quite difficult for athletes native to these environments to properly train for the "winter Olympics": that's snow, and ice. Shocking, I know. I've never heard of people gone skiing on the Kilimanjaro top either. I guess you already acknowledged that (like you said, duh)
The point is that even though everybody on this planet is capable of training for the "summer Olympics", still a vast majority of Olympic champions originate from the warmer parts of our globe. And I doubt they get higher quality coaching compared to European athletes, for example.

There's the notion of the cold actually creating a strength in the body that warm environments can't begin to induce.

This is an over simplification of things. What you're actually referring to is called "cryotherapy", and it's a brief exposure of the body to very cold temperatures, in a controlled environment. It has nothing to do with the exterior environment the individual evolves in. Also, it seems that most top athletes of the world happen to originate from the warmer climates.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics
Does living in colder climates really make you stronger then?

Tyler, it's true that the Yaghan people's moderate adaptation to cold is impressive. They might've been slowly on their way to completely adapting to their environments climates, perhaps in (far) future generations.
However, as the wikipedia article states, these people use not one but several technological (as defined by wiki) methods to resist the cold, such as fires, constructed shelters, and covering their body with animal grease. I mean, their territory isn't called "land of fire" (tierra del fuego) for no reason  , as the article explains.
Obviously their body's adopted method to resist the cold is extra fat layers, as they look "chubby" compared to other ethnic groups/tribes.

Ps: they always look like they're cold as hell!! 

You know what? Enough with the theories and speculation about how humans can survive, let alone thrive in the cold without technology (as defined by wiki).
Lets get some actual empirical evidence out there   !

And I don't want to hear about no Inuit or Fuegian tribes, because they obviously use at least one form of technology to keep warm (shelter, clothes, controlled fire).

Tyler, you seem to be of northern-european descent, right?
You're probably following what you would describe as an optimal, or near optimal diet, correct?

Well, Tyler, and any other willful person who shares the same characteristics as cited above, I challenge you to pick your favorite winter vacation (Christmas, St-Nicolas...) to go and live outside with absolutely no heating or cold protecting technology.
Yep, that's no T-shirt, no blanket, no central heating, no hair-dryer, no fur, no fire. I you do need to use your car during this experiment, it's windows down (Is their any natural shelter on earth with no open entry-exit?) and no heating of course.
If you've got work to do, just bring your office chair and computer outside the house, and cover it with something when done (We don't want your office tools to get cold and wet, do we?  )
If you can't sleep without a good mattress, you are allowed to bring yours outside. But no covers!!
Mosquito net allowed too, if not touching the skin. Probably wont need it though, since insects don't usually hang out in the cold...
You can train before D-day of course, make the most of your weekends and go live and sleep outside while it's not dangerously freezing yet.

This is a joke of course, but if somebody really did that, I can bet you he wouldn't last 3 days. A week max before actual death.
As long as there will be no solid evidence to back up such absurd claims, the only sensible conclusion to be made is that no human being can stand such intense cold, for such an important length of time, without the use of technology.
I'm pretty confident there never will be any evidence to be found against....

I also have binge-eating tendencies and actually had the same desire (more like urge) to go on a long fast. I didn't because of several reasons:
-I couldn't work out a long enough period of free time for the fast to actually be worth it;
-I though doing it while on a transitional/S€D diet might not be a good idea, especially having deficiencies in certain vitamins and minerals at the time. However me having low levels of vitamins is most likely due to my body's difficulty actually absorbing them, as it was pointed out recently by the family doctor.
-Wasn't sure if the house I live in could be considered a "pristine" enough location, as it is advised by the fasting experts. I live in the suburbs of Brussels, Belgium's capital. Quite a green area actually. Of course it's probably not as ideal of a place as the seaside, or the mountains, or even the forest.

In my case I was actually thinking things over too much, and was going against my intuitive desire to fast, by eating!
What I mean to say is at that time I didn't feel truly hungry for anything. Be it a raw or processed food, if I stopped and listened to my own body, I found that nothing really appealed. My stomach felt full even though I hadn't eaten anything in the past 12-16 hours.
Plus my nose was (and still is) completely clogged up and insensitive to any stimuli (can't smell anything), which one could relate to macro-nutrient overload. I still ate because I thought I wasn't ready to fast yet, and once I had processed food in my mouth it was hard for me to stop at satiety. Actually I went to bed most nights with a full stomach...

Now days are getting chillier here in Belgium, studies just started, so I don't want to be fasting right now either. I'll leave the vulnerability and detox crisis for the warmer Spring days, if I still feel like it.
This Friday however I'm going to see someone who can help me deal with my eating disorder, which I believe has a psychological root rather than physiological.

What I want to point out is that both of us (I assume) felt like fasting as a result of our binge-eating disorder, or the cause of it at least, if you consider binge-eating to be a symptom rather than the origin. It is known that fasting cleans out your body of damaged tissues, toxins and unwanted organic matter, as you body can focus on cleaning and repairing, rather than digestion. That's why you don't usually feel hungry when your ill.
It might be a way of "reseting" your gut flora, if your making that last transition to your new diet/way of life.
After a long enough period of fast, true hunger finally reappears. Not the "It's noon, time to eat" hunger. Real, basic, vital hunger.

^not talking from own experience, but from content written by other people knowledgeable on the matter.

Doesn't mean that you'll never fall back to your old habits ever again, but at least this type of hunger puts you back on the right tracks when it comes to eating the proper amount of food at the appropriate time.
 Fasting could also have a psychological effect on you, and make you realize that you never needed to eat this much food to feel good and live good. Especially if the food you ate was mostly junk food, processed food.