Ep 149: Headphone Dents: What it Takes to Reshape a Skull
Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman
The Negative Selection Mechanism of Malaria
There was a negative selection when that happened because natural selection would favor its removal from the population when malaria is not present. So someone else who, for a reason you're about to explain had sickle shaped cells in an area without malaria, yeah, they wouldn't necessarily survive better. In fact, it might be more of a liability. And then you just end up with a population that has very little about that occurrence.
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