Posted on 10/12/2011 6:26:05 PM PDT by decimon
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have cracked the genetic code of the Black Death, one of history's worst plagues, and found that its modern day bacterial descendants haven't changed much over 600 years.
Luckily, we have.
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In devastating the population, it changed the human immune system, basically wiping out people who couldn't deal with the disease and leaving the stronger to survive, said study co-author Hendrik Poinar of McMaster University in Ontario.
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Flea bitten ping.
I’ve only known yo a short time, Decimon. but I certainly notice the change.
It has changed the White House!
Adapt or die, BHF. Surely you ARE NOT suggesting Islam is going to adapt?
Ah, no, man. Be cool. They are going to die.
Whups. Not “yo”—”yu”.
Is “yu” like a “Yute?”
In before screenshots from Mony Python And The Holy Grail.
The fleas are to blame.
I would consider this a successful adaptation.
Only if you are Chinese and smoke rope.
And here yu seem so free. A paragon, a symbol. Not a symbiont. Am I really talking to a yu? Or talking to a flea?
Interesting that one of the articles on this Black Death Plague DNA stated that it was not connected with the Justinian Plague that killed 100 million and threw the West into the Dark Ages. It did, however, start in Western China.
I like it. I guess there could be some downside not yet realized but it's hard to imagine what would be worse than losing a third of the population to a horrid disease.
I don't think so. This guy seems to be arguing that it came to us like in that movie about the pod people. ;-)
So many of us died. Some of us lived.
Natural selection leading to the evolution of resistant traits in humans? Say it ain’t so! /s
So marxism can theoretically be exterminated through bio-engineering.
Finally, a solution.
This line of reasoning doesn’t come up nearly as often as it should.
I’ve read countless journals in which it is stated that organism X causes death in y% of its victims, and the analysis stops there. My question has always been, what is it about the victims that caused them to die? What enabled the survivors to live? But I never see research designed to answer those questions.
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