[Dragaera] Breaking the Cycle - Genetic Purity

[Gaertk at aol.com]

"Maximilian Wilson" <wilson.max at gmail.com> writes:

>[Cochran's idea is that if you take evolution seriously, not many
>diseases can be genetic in origin because they'd quickly get bred out
>of the gene pool; therefore we should be looking for environmental
>causes like pathogens, which are transmitted independently of host DNA
>and therefore not subject to evolutionary pressure in the same way.]

That only works if the disease is the sort that would prevent you 
from reproducing.  My parents lived 60+ years and had three kids 
before finding out Dad was born with a defective heart valve and Mom 
had a cyst growing in her brain.

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