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There are some other mutation traits which have spread rapidly because they conferred survival advantage. For Europe we have the white gene which enabled people to move north from Africa because fair women could absorb Vitamin D better and produce hips wide enough to yield live young. Now, it is also believed that Neanderthal had fair skin, red hair and blue eyes, so some interbreeding may have helped too.

Another gene is the one that enables adults to drink cows milk without suffering from digestive upset. Getting rid of lactose intolerance was a great boon to farmers in Europe who had cattle. Places like China, America, etc. that lacked large bovines never spread this gene even if it did occasionally occur. Apparently, there is also a genetic basis for survival of the black death in Europe. Perhaps some are aware of other recent genes we could list.


49 posted on 05/12/2014 11:17:38 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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Apparently, there is also a genetic basis for survival of the black death in Europe. Perhaps some are aware of other recent genes we could list.

CCR5-delta32 comes to mind.

50 posted on 05/12/2014 11:30:46 PM PDT by thecodont
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