So, apparently, my cold is good because we're reading this book Survival of the Sickest, and I'm feeling pretty darn sick.
So like, what we learned in this book is that fava beans kill people. Well not all people, specifically those from around the Mediterranean. It's not like they have a personal vendetta against Mediterranean people, it's more like they want to help them live, because malaria is generally a thing that people don't like. Yeah, it kills you. But people from the Mediterranean who can be killed by fava beans will generally not be killed by malaria. Pourquoi? Because they lack G6PD, the bouncer of the biological world. Without this G6PD, the blood is not a very good environment for the malaria virus, who is actually quite wimpy, so it doesn't take in these people. However, they also can't eat fava beans, one of the primary crops of the area. #worthit
Evolution: killing you so you don't die since 2 billion years ago.
I bid you adieu!
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