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[ValerieTexas]

"Skin color represents one of biology's most elegant adaptations," Kappelman said. "The production of vitamin D in the skin serves as one of the body's first lines of defenses against a whole host of infections and diseases.

How could such a politically incorrect statement come from Austin, TX? Sure looks like he is claiming that white skin is more evolved (advanced) than dark skin.

[SunkenCiv]

Researchers Discover Ancient Origins Of Tuberculosis-causing Bacteria
ScienceDaily
Aug. 20, 2005

Researchers have long considered tuberculosis, a bacterial respiratory disease that kills 3 million people each year, a relatively recent human affliction... Most tuberculosis cases are caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its close relatives. However, some tuberculosis patients from East Africa are infected with unusual bacterial strains that form colonies that appear physically different from M. tuberculosis. Using genetic data from the different strains, Vincent and her colleagues discovered that the ancestors of these bacterial strains were also the progenitors of M. tuberculosis. These results suggest that M. tuberculosis and related strains recently emerged from a much more ancient bacterial species than previously thought, possibly as old as 3 million years, Vincent says. "Tuberculosis could thus be much older than the plague, typhoid fever, or malaria, and might have affected early hominids," and its expansion to the rest of the world may have coincided with the waves of human migration out of Africa.

TB was in Turkey 500K years ago.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 12/07/2007. Just a ping message update. Thanks blam.