{"id":91181,"date":"2025-07-10T09:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91181"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:45:46","slug":"a-few-thousand-years-ago-nomads-experienced-a-spike-in-mutations-that-boosted-their-immune-system-and-that-may-have-helped-them-resist-the-diseases-they-contracted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91181","title":{"rendered":"A few thousand years ago: &#8220;nomads experienced a spike in mutations that boosted their immune system and that may have helped them resist the diseases they contracted&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/20250709235604\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/09\/science\/archaeology-diseases-pathogens.html#selection-809.145-813.100\">https:\/\/archive.ph\/20250709235604\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/09\/science\/archaeology-diseases-pathogens.html#selection-809.145-813.100<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is extremely recent and rapid evolution and thus it would not be surprising if there were bad effects such as auto-immune disorders. The nomads had huge plagues die-offs. Makes me wonder if Ghengis Khan had a hidden bioweapon.<\/p>\n<p>Peoples of NA and Australia did not have those mutations. OTOH with a quick lit review I saw note of lower incidence of MS in native American peoples.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;European farmers and hunter-gatherers had not evolved resistance to diseases such as plague and may have died off in huge numbers, making it easier for the nomads to move in.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/archive.ph\/20250709235604\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/09\/science\/archaeology-diseases-pathogens.html#selection-809.145-813.100 This is extremely recent and rapid evolution and thus it would not be surprising if there were bad effects such as auto-immune disorders. The nomads had huge plagues die-offs. Makes me wonder if Ghengis Khan had a hidden bioweapon. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-91181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91182,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91181\/revisions\/91182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}