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The Relationship Between Blood Groups & Disease

currer

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Interesting section on population migration and paleolithic remnants in Ice age Europe.

I always feel a bond with my paleolithic european ancestors as the winter solstice nears.
The Balkans were the centre of a highly developed neolithic culture - which makes sense, if there was cultural continuity there from before the ice age.

Just off out to adjust my stone circle.
 

IreneF

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This stuff is highly speculative. Some of the major diseases they mention are dependent on large populations to maintain human transmission--which is why plague, for example, didn't appear until Late Antiquity, as far as we know--or evolved from diseases of domesticated animals, such as measles and smallpox.

Also, microbes evolve way faster than we do.

But it's still really interesting.