DeWitte has analyzed the skeletal remains of more than 1,000 men, women and children who lived before, during and after the Black Death.
DeWitte has analyzed the skeletal remains of more than 1,000 men, women and children who lived before, during and after the Black Death.
She could do whatever she wants with my skeleton...
Our country will be a lot better off once our current crop of seniors are feeding the worms. "Gimme, gimme, gimme! Pay me 'til I tell you to stop."
This world has never seen so much unproductive protoplasm.
People of European descent, whose ancestors survived the black death, commonly have a particular immune system variation that is only found rarely in other races. It is thought that this particular variation helped those ancestors survive. That variation could be the basis of the hardiness that Dr. DeWitte has observed.
Perhaps the survivors would have lived even longer had they not contracted the plague.
As a former archaeologist, I’d just like to say, “I’d like to check her bones”.
Cute lady.
However, I read these same conclusions decades ago when the first studies on the bodies of the plague victims were matched against those of the survivors.
The survivors also improved the gene pool which was flushed out by the plague’s killing the weaker population.
However, in this day and age of political correctness, do we have to change the name of the Black Plague (known in America as President Obama and Mooschelle) to something less racist, such as the “Dark Plague” or the “Not White Plague?
Is it still allowable to put a “plague on your house” curse on someone or do we have to say “May a flock of deadly fleas infest your abode”?
Just asking. Late Friday night. Work is done. Tomatoes to plant tomorrow, cats stomaches to scratch, and fresh Mulberries to eat right from the tree.
Carney - GONE
Shinseki - GONE
OBAMA - WHEN?
One of the guys that survived was Nostradamus.
Course it made him kind of weird.
The Black Death helped kill feudalism is western Europe - that alone had to have improved the survivors lives.
Maybe it’s the genetic legacy enjoyed by the survivors of the plague that’s made the US...Canada...Europe...Australia so prosperous.
“Black Death” is racist. The correct term is Unwhite Distress.
Years ago, I was researching my late husband’s ancestors. Some, I found lived during that time. One of the things that really stood out was that whole towns died and no one was left to bury them. I love history and that brought it to life. A very sad time.
I think DeWitte got more than her share of Neanderthal genes.
Nearly incomprehensible figures.
Interesting. People create super strains of bacteria by using antibiotics. Bacteria creates super strains of people by causing plagues.
She looks a bit frail herself...maybe a checkup is perhaps in order?
Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down.
Back in the day when I was studying the Middle Ages I read a study or a chapter in a book about the plague and how certain communities apparently had immunities that protected their people.
I remember one of the pockets without any plague deaths was an area in Bavaria and/or the Balkans as well as a township or two in England.
It occurred to me that the immunity might be the result of some specific genetic strain that was handed down in those isolated pockets from generation to generation.
