[Da Coyote]

Interesting article, but I’m surprised the New Scientist didn’t relate this to climate change. I’ve just allowed my subscription to lapse due to the fact that any articles covering other than physics appear to have very little science and very much politics...and climate change is always lurking very much in the foreground. Beware. British liberals are in full flower in this mag. If it ain’t physics, fuggetabowdit!!

[Battle Axe]

Because those who are related are likely to have the same blood types. If the diet is off, then disease will take hold.

Read Peter D’Andamo The Bloodtype Diet

[Smokin' Joe]

All other things aside, hygiene runs in families, too. Some folks live grubbier than others, some in clutter, some in spit-shined sanitation, some, well, ick. A couple of friends who do contract cleaning have told me horror stories of filthy living, even in this day and age of city water, sewers, and garbage collection.

Actions (and the lack of them) have consequences.

Even in the days before running water, there were marked differences in the way individuals and family groups approached personal cleanliness, and those habits were generally maintained throughout individual and to a lesser extent, extended family groups.

That peer pressure cannot be underestimated, nor can the basic sanitation know-how of grampa making the kids put the outhouse away from the well or down hill from the spring and away from the creek.

Similarly, dietary expectations and preferences would tend to follow familial lines as well. (Every young man wants a woman who can cook as well as Momma or Grandma, or at least it used to be that way.)

There may be a genetic factor as well, (nature or nurture?), but I am betting the biggest factors are behavioural ones which did not usually stray far from the behaviours people were raised with.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Carilisa]

My paternal grandparents lost 3 kids in the 1918 pandemic. Two survived. When my Dad was born in 25, they named him after his deceased brother.