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Humans and some other animals lost the ability to synthesize vitamin C endogenously (GULO/GULOP). Strepsirrhini (lorises, etc.) primates retained it while Hapl
by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Humans and some other animals lost the ability to synthesize vitamin C endogenously (GULO/GULOP). Strepsirrhini (lorises, etc.) primates retained it while Haplorhini (humans and such) lost it. It's speculated that the loss is preferentially adaptive to starvation survival, which isn't really a concern anymore for overfed modern humans.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22294879/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22294879/