Evolution of sickle cell malaria

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A gene known as HbS was the center of a medical and evolutionary detective story that began in the middle 1940s in Africa. Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year. What was puzzling was why sickle cell anemia was so prevalent in some African populations.

How could a "bad" gene -- the mutation that causes the sometimes lethal sickle cell disease -- also be beneficial? On the other hand, if it didn't provide some survival advantage, why had the sickle gene persisted in such a high frequency in the populations that had it?

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[subach]

I was actually thinking about this as an arguement against the creationist. Why would god create/design humans with a defence like this? Maybe I'll start working on that vid again. Great stuff!

[Acorvettes]

Ya they have lots of holes in their "theories" and you don't see them doing the experiments that real scientist use to prove things. All they do is talk and it sounds crazy.

[Acorvettes]

Don't forget to leave a rating (good or bad)thanks :)

[phantomspellchecker]

@bdf2718 Remeber that Gawd and Jebus love you but want you to burn forever. It's in the babble.

[3millions]

This really Educated me about how Malaria/Sickle Cell Anemia Gene is passed down and spread to USA!

[hambone0000]

i want to test this theory for myself

[gadionson1]

this is good in educational research. very helpful

[bdf2718]

@phantomspellchecker

Specifically, in the New Testicles.

And it's the proof that the Xtian God does not exist. He loves us all. He will give us an infinite afterlife if somehow we manage to choose the correct one of 3 major Abrahamic religions and then choose the correct one of 30,000+ Xtian doctrines. Which we know because he'll tell us on the cosmic telephone that we chose correctly, just as he tells the followers of the other 29,999 doctrines.

Only Satan would set things up that way.

[r0galik]

Sickle cell malaria? WTF?!

[fresnodarwindog]

what PBS/Nova TV series is this video from?

[fight4th3truth]

its a shame that people who don't get that gene but thats Darwin's nature selection, thats main principal, in the wild those people would ve died but thx to modern science they have a chance.

[bdf2718]

God hates black people. They're the descendants of Ham and therefore evil fuckers. It's in the Babble.

Oh, wait. Global warming has increased the range of the anopheles mosquito, and malaria has spread to new regions. Regions which now have an increased incidence of sickle cell anaemia. Which means Gawd hates Italians now. It's in the Babble, so it must be right.

[yeeenah]

Sickle cell disease has been known to the peoples of Africa for hundreds of years. In West Africa various ethnic groups gave the condtion different names: Ga tribe: chwechweechwe

Faute tribe: nwiiwii

Ewe tribe: nuidudui

Twi tribe: ahotutuo