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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by hyperthesis on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:16PM (#35363798)
What's the advantage to not being able to tolerate rotten meat? Perhaps it's costly to tolerate it.

Apparently the advantage of losing body hair is fewer problems with lice (consider how much time other primates devote to grooming)

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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by nkrisc on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:02PM (#35365774)
There may be no advantage at all to not being able to tolerate. It may simply be there is no longer any advantage to being able to tolerate it, and thus no longer any pressure to select for the trait.
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