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Skeletons reveal humans evolved to fight pathogens – Phys.org
As COVID-19 impacts lives around the world—a new skeleton study is reconstructing ancient pandemics to assess human’s evolutionary ability to fight off leprosy,…
As COVID-19 impacts lives around the worlda new skeleton study is reconstructing ancient pandemics to assess human’s evolutionary ability to fight off leprosy, tuberculosis and treponematoses with help from declining rates of transmission when the germs became widespread.
The researchers state the germs mutated to infect ancient humans so they could replicate- hopping across to as many new hosts as possible- but the severity of the diseases reduced as a result.
The analysis by Adjunct Professor…
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