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Old 11-05-2004, 04:50 AM  
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Originally posted by Mike33
sickle cell may make them more resistant to malaria, but you're certainly not saying we should all hope to have a sickle cell trait are you? Blacks seem to have problems with that sometimes.

It's a gene that is passed on. Yes I agree. What does that have to do with evolution?
Why are black people (people from a tropical climate) FAR more likely to be immune to malaria (a tropical disease) then white people (people from a temperate climate)?
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