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Do you have a citation for Africans having adaptations against hookworms? That seemed like the stronger claim made to my reading. I’m not aware that such a her
by aspenmayer 2y ago
Do you have a citation for Africans having adaptations against hookworms? That seemed like the stronger claim made to my reading.
I’m not aware that such a heritable adaptation to endemic pathogens was possible in this case, but then again, I was surprised to learn about the link between sickle cell disease and malaria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_resistance_to_malaria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_resistance_to_ma...