disease, and the evidence of adaptive responses

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disease, and the evidence of adaptive responses
in human populations
from Freeman Herron Evolutionary Analysis
(2004)
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disease, and the evidence for lack of adaptive
responses in human populations myopia
identical twins paternal twins both
myopic/ both non-myopic one myopic and one
non-myopic
67
34
33
66
but.......
number myopic number non-myopic
myopic Inuit youth (age 6-35)
Inuit adults (age 36-88)
146
202
42
8
152
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cited in Freeman Herron Evolutionary Analysis
(2004)
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why (not how) are diseases harmful to their
hosts? (this is an evolutionary question)
from Freeman Herron Evolutionary Analysis
(2004)
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from the book Guns Germs Steel by Jared Diamond
(1999)
Yali's question to Diamond "Why is it that you
white people developed so much cargo and brought
it to New Guinea, but we black people had little
cargo of our own?"
or stated another way....
Why did Cortez cross the ocean and conquer the
Incas, rather than the Incas crossing the ocean
to conquer the Spaniards?
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Jared Diamond (1999) Guns, Germs, and Steel The
Fates of Human Societies (New York W.W. Norton).
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Jared Diamond (1999) Guns, Germs, and Steel The
Fates of Human Societies (New York W.W. Norton).
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Jared Diamond (1999) Guns, Germs, and Steel The
Fates of Human Societies (New York W.W. Norton).
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Jared Diamond (1999) Guns, Germs, and Steel The
Fates of Human Societies (New York W.W. Norton).
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Jared Diamond (1999) Guns, Germs, and Steel The
Fates of Human Societies (New York W.W.
Norton).
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Robin A. Weiss (2001) The Leeuwenhoek Lecture
2001. Animal origins of human infectious
disease. Phil.Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 356
957-977.
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Robin A. Weiss (2001) The Leeuwenhoek Lecture
2001. Animal origins of human infectious
disease. Phil.Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 356
957-977.
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Robin A. Weiss (2001) The Leeuwenhoek Lecture
2001. Animal origins of human infectious
disease. Phil.Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 356
957-977.
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Robin A. Weiss (2001) The Leeuwenhoek Lecture
2001. Animal origins of human infectious
disease. Phil.Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 356
957-977.