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What does our DNA say about evolution? - S1E29

The DNA Talks Podcast

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What Happened to the Indian Population?

The ability to store fat was passed on from one generation to the next. The people that needed less calories survived, and so they passed on the genetics of the ability to survive with less food. So what we see is that the need to fast and the need to have less calories is how this population now thrives. In indian people there's a lot more metabolic disease than southasian people.

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