
Evolution, Ethanol & Venom
Dr Karl Podcast
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Is There a Streamlining of Evolution in Your Immune System?
Evolutionary biologists think that maybe we're more attracted to people who have very different immune systems to ourselves. Half of DNA comes from in a newborn child, comes from the mum and half from the dad. And you walk down the street, you see a family with their kids and you go, oh, they look like the dad or they all look like the mum. So evolution as Zoey pointed out is a numbers game. You want to have as many tools in your genetic toolkit as possible. That's often our attraction. Have a good one.
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