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Anything that kills you mostly only after prime child-birthing years does not matter to evolution, and human behavior and diet has changed just a bit over the last 10000 years.


> Anything that kills you mostly only after prime child-birthing years does not matter to evolution

That's...very much not true. Any disease that doesn't effect the chances of children closely related to the exposed person being born and surviving to adulthood does not matter much to evolution, but killing the exposed person before or during prime childbearing years isn't the only way to effect that.


Living grandparents are also increasing the survival chances of their grandchildren.




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