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Not at all. If some of them adapt to contaminated water, they'll be more hydrated than the ones with bloody diarrhea, and pass their resistance to their descend
by ASalazarMX 4y ago
Not at all. If some of them adapt to contaminated water, they'll be more hydrated than the ones with bloody diarrhea, and pass their resistance to their descendants.
- morkalork 4y agoGiven that humans haven't adapted 100% to "raw water" after millennia of evolution, the odds aren't really in their favor.
- gobengo 4y agomillenia is not very much time to be applying inductive reasoning about future odds. absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
- morkalork 4y agoWhy don't you go out and drink raw water for a while and report back after.
- fluoridation 4y agoThe question is whether drinking contaminated water has a survival advantage. It could have one if clean water is so scarce to the point that you're more likely to die of thirst before reproductive age than of bacterial infection.
- olodus 4y agoMillenia is however a bloody long time to have daily diarrhea. But I commend them for trying. Good luck.
- ars 4y agoPeople who grow up with untreated water do in fact have resistance to the pathogens in it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers%27_diarrhea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers%27_diarrhea
- xsmasher 4y agoYes, but it's not evolution. From that page- > A study among expatriates in Nepal suggests that immunity may take up to seven years to develop—presumably in adults who avoid deliberate pathogen exposure.[18] Conversely, immunity acquired by American students while living in Mexico disappeared, in one study, as quickly as eight weeks after cessation of exposure.[19] I suspect it's your gut flora that adapts; but it's not your DNA.
- Haga 4y ago[dead]