[Dog Gone]

That doesn’t make any sense to me from a genetic standpoint or even an evolutionary standpoint.

Even agnostic scientists put man into the Americas about 13-15,000 years ago. That’s a fraction of the time attributed to the development and migration of humans elsewhere.

They had the same forefathers.

[wintertime]

I doubt that the Native Americans of today are likely to have a 90% chance of dying if they contract measles. Yet, when the first Europeans arrived in the New World measles was highly fatal to the Indians.

Those Indians who surrvived the initial epidemics, were genetically hardy with regard to these diseases. They genetically passed this hardiness on their offspring.

The same likely occurred in Europe centuries or millennium before the explorers arrived in the New World. These explorers had already had contracted the diseases and were immune, or were genetically hardy and resistant to them.

[wintertime]

I doubt that the Native Americans of today are likely to have a 90% chance of dying if they contract measles. Yet, when the first Europeans arrived in the New World measles was highly fatal to the Indians.

Those Indians who survived the initial epidemics, were genetically hardy with regard to these diseases. They genetically passed this hardiness on their offspring.

The same likely occurred in Europe centuries or millennium before the explorers arrived in the New World. These explorers had already had contracted the diseases and were immune, or were genetically hardy and resistant to them.

[MARTIAL MONK]

The Europeans may not have acquired a lot of new diseases in the New World but they were still dying from the old ones. Before and after Columbus, smallpox, typhus and the other killers were running hot through the major cities of Europe, Berlin, Lisbon, London, and others, sometimes killing as much as half of the population.

Even in the New World white mortality from these diseases was high, though not as high as the Indians'. Word of a small pox outbreak was feared nearly as much as rumor of Indian raids. It meant that some people were going to die.