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Anthropology

Warpy

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3. A lot of autimmune stuff seems to trace back to our Neandertal ancestors

Reply to FirstLight (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 8, 2022, 11:27 PM

Sep 2022

Most people just got a few immune system changes that allowed them to survive the European diseases they had no immunity to. The immune system overshoots things in some of us and attacks our own tissue.

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