Introduction

Infornet theory proposes that the body self-organises to achieve the state defined by the genome. As a result, people should be healthiest (i.e., with a well-regulated infornet) when their lifestyle corresponds to the pattern that is specified in their genome. This hypothesis leads to the following questions: What is that pattern specified in the genome? How do our genes expect us to live?

A simple application of evolutionary theory and genetics suggests that humans are healthiest when their pattern of living corresponds most closely to the circumstances under which they evolved. Anatomically, modern humans have evolved over long period of time but they existed in their present form some 100,000 years ago. Humans evolved in an environment that was different in a number of respects from the modern environment. According to the simple view, the genetic determinants of a modern healthy lifestyle can be understood in terms of a Palaeolithic lifestyle some one hundred thousand to ten thousand years ago. The Upper Palaeolithic (‘old stone age’) occurred during the last ice age, and the Upper Palaeolithic people lived a life of hunter-gatherers. By contrast the Neolithic people (‘new stone age’) lived after the end of the last ice age and were farmers. The growing of crops and domestication of animals developed simultaneously in several parts of the world from about 10,000 years ago onwards.