• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    i want to point out sickle cell anemia.

    if you have it, life is hard. pre-modern-medicine you died young. however if you are just a carrier (you have to carry two recessive genes to have the disease, but if you only have one you’re a carrier. i think it’s recessive, i learned this 20 years ago) you have remarkable resistance to malaria.

    life is funny that way.