Ellipse said:Thanks for the session. Give me the feeling, more than ever, that we have very little time now. :(
About the answer of the C's about the Black Death:
A: Those that have a certain genetic profile may suffer very little.
While the Christmas season I've seen a TV program about a researcher who believe have isolated a such gene !
He explain that that he have analyze DNA of descendant of people spared by the Black Death and they have in common, the lake of a gene.
Ok, this is even in Wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_DeathA theory put forth by Stephen O'Brien says the Black Death is likely responsible, through natural selection, for the high frequency of the CCR5-Δ32 genetic defect in people of European descent. The gene affects T cell function and provides protection against HIV, smallpox, and possibly plague,[27] though for the last, no explanation as to how it would do that exists. This, however, is now challenged, given that the CCR5-Δ32 gene has been found to be just as common in Bronze Age tissue samples.[28]
The last sentence of this quote does not make sens to me.
Yes, that is that the gene and my immediate question was, how do we know we have it? Not all of us are going to do genetic testing! So the session was interested in that regard, I thought that the answer of smoking being a clue to the genetic profile was related.
BTW, in the DCM magazine, we provided a reasonable explanation for what the info in wikipedia can't account for.