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Are you saying agriculture cause humans to lose the ability to create vitamins (specifically C)? I don't think that is true, at least according to Nature: http
by wbc 6y ago
Are you saying agriculture cause humans to lose the ability to create vitamins (specifically C)? I don't think that is true, at least according to Nature:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-mystery-of-vitamin-c-14167861/ https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-mystery-of-vit...
The article posits the loss of Vitamin C to be much earlier:
Notably, not only all humans, but also gorillas, chimps, orangutans, and some monkeys have this inborn genetic flaw, meaning that the loss of vitamin C biosynthesis must have occurred first in one of our primate ancestors.