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		cperciva on Feb 7, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam... I'm not convinced. The black death had an effect on human evolution -- a single event with high mortality can be all it takes to shift the genome.

Denote6737 on Feb 10, 2025 [–]

But that is directly due to the level of death. We have no evidence that half of the tribes in an area were wiped out.

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