GGG Ping, SC?
Gypsy is a derogatory term? Since when?
Someone better tell the Gypsy Kings.
Pertinent:
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf119/sf119p05.htm
http://www.diadelausabilidad.com/ccr5-delta-32-genetic-test-for-hiv-immunity.html
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-472-miscellaneous-articles-and-updates/
There have been studies along these lines out there for a long time, decades at least.
My mother’s father’s side of the family had a problem with blood beginning to clot too easily in their early to mid 40s.
This happened to me several times in my early 40s. It was thought to possibly have been passed on from the survivors of the Black Plague.
If this is true, is it really as a result of an altered gene, or is it the result of the gene being present that somehow caused the survival of individuals who would naturally pass it on?
“Humans were modified, basically, by infections.”
Human, not sick + infection = modified Human, sick.
Would that Obama said it first for a Nobel Prize in Medicine?
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“Humans were modified, basically, by infections. ... Other diseases could have altered the same genes.”
Unscientific nonsense. Bacterial infections don’t alter human genes. Environmental forces can eliminate portions of the population carrying certain genes, while leaving other portions of the population with other genes to continue their line, thereby SHIFTING the proportion of EXISTING genes in future populations. That’s it. Alteration of percentages of the population with a particular EXISTING gene.
Perhaps some virus could weasel its way into a gamete, but short of that, nada.
What happened in India a thousand years ago that got these folks on the move to begin with?