“Trace their roots” seems too strong a claim to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthritis#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthritis#History: Evidence o

“Trace their roots” seems too strong a claim to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthritis#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthritis#History: Evidence of osteoarthritis and potentially inflammatory arthritis has been discovered in dinosaurs. The first known traces of human arthritis date back as far as 4500 BC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_diabetes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_diabetes: The condition known today as diabetes (usually referring to diabetes mellitus) is thought to have been described in the Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 BC). Ayurvedic physicians (5th/6th century BC) first noted the sweet taste of diabetic urine, and called the condition madhumeha ("honey urine") And of course, the article (“Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death”) doesn’t say it, either, just saying that it selected for a more active immune system, increasing the risk that it becomes too active. Makes sense, too, as they wouldn’t have been able to find many genes associated with these diseases if they mutated during the bubonic plague.