No, I didn't see that. I'm particularly phobic about plagues. I mean, not that most people aren't, but I just really don't like thinking or hearing about epidemic-type illnesses more than I have to. (I don't watch/read apocalyptic-type movies/books that revolve around plague, for instance; I've got no interest in documentaries on Ebola etc.; and when I had to read La peste in high school French it was a horrific experience.) But it sounds very cool! I wasn't aware of the suggestion that there was a link to HIV resistance; I'd only heard recently about the CF theory.
Oddly enough, the plague thing's more upsetting to me in thinky terms than a problem in RL - the SARS scare in Ontario in hmm, 2003? was just something to deal with - despite all the masks, and hysteria, and people actually dying from it.
Mm, yeah, it's cool that evolutionary biology is still such a WIP that it'll give us these mental shifts. And there are always going to be those kinds of surprises, because of the nature of selection pressure and the randomness of real-world events.
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Oddly enough, the plague thing's more upsetting to me in thinky terms than a problem in RL - the SARS scare in Ontario in hmm, 2003? was just something to deal with - despite all the masks, and hysteria, and people actually dying from it.
Mm, yeah, it's cool that evolutionary biology is still such a WIP that it'll give us these mental shifts. And there are always going to be those kinds of surprises, because of the nature of selection pressure and the randomness of real-world events.