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Cannibalism spread brain rot! or not?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Gene mutations that protect some people from certain brain-destroying diseases may be evidence of cannibalism in ancient times.
A team of British researchers suggests in a paper in Friday's issue of the journal Science that cannibalism may have caused epidemics of kuru and Creutzfeld Jacob disease, which can be spread by eating contaminated flesh.
Natural selection would then have favored people with mutations, allowing them to survive and reproduce.
Those two diseases and the human form of mad cow disease are believed to be caused by prions, an abnormal protein that can cause proteins to clump in the brain.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Gene mutations that protect some people from certain brain-destroying diseases may be evidence of cannibalism in ancient times.
A team of British researchers suggests in a paper in Friday's issue of the journal Science that cannibalism may have caused epidemics of kuru and Creutzfeld Jacob disease, which can be spread by eating contaminated flesh.
Natural selection would then have favored people with mutations, allowing them to survive and reproduce.
Those two diseases and the human form of mad cow disease are believed to be caused by prions, an abnormal protein that can cause proteins to clump in the brain.
More Important for some than others
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