From an evolutionary standpoint, better for a fraction of the population to be seriously anemic than for the whole population to be dead of malaria. But you know this.
466 posted on 01/24/2005 9:16:09 PM PST by general_re
(How come so many of the VKs have been here six months or less?)
From an evolutionary standpoint, better for a fraction of the population to be seriously anemic than for the whole population to be dead of malaria. But you know this.
And you know that malaria is not 100% fatal to non-carriers.
470 posted on 01/24/2005 9:18:44 PM PST by AndrewC
(Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)