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[–] 2 points 3 months ago*

i want to point out sickle cell anemia.

if you have it, life is hard. pre-modern-medicine you died young. however if you are just a carrier (you have to carry two recessive genes to have the disease, but if you only have one you're a carrier. i think it's recessive, i learned this 20 years ago) you have remarkable resistance to malaria.

life is funny that way.

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