Showing posts with label ice age. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 4 July 2017

THE ARTHRITIS GENE HELPED HUMANS SURVIVE THE ICE AGE.

The gene that increases your likelihood to suffer from arthritis could also be the gene that helped humans survive through the Ice Age, scientists have discovered.
In what can only be described as one of the biological world’s greatest double-edged swords, it appears as though evolution both gives and very definitely takes away.


The gene in question causes people to become more compact, a trait that became increasingly common as humans started moving north away from Africa.