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They should have analysed Pakistanis with the Indians many of which few generation ago were vegetarians before converting to Islam. Would really show how many g
by xbmcuser 11y ago
They should have analysed Pakistanis with the Indians many of which few generation ago were vegetarians before converting to Islam. Would really show how many generation it takes for the dna to change etc
- edge17 11y agoTrue, though there's a lot of this going on in just the Indian population as well. Generally, people tend to eat more meat as incomes rise. That is true in the west as well as the east.
- sremani 11y agoxbmcuser is talking about tradition of vegetarianism due to faith, which does not linearly increase meat consumption in certain groups. Actually the traditionally vegetarian groups tended to be economically above average in India.
- negamax 11y agoUpper (rich) class in India is mostly vegeterian, including current prime minister. Historically, outclass eat meat as they were cut off from farm based civilisation.
- danans 11y agoThat pattern, to the degree it exists, is relatively recent, compared to the evolutionary time scale. It is no older than the religious encoding of vegetarianism in India, which is ~2k years old, and even that was widespread only at a later date. A better explanation is to compare to other populations with similar environments, like Africa. In fact the graphic in the article shows a similarly higher rate of the alleles in question.
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