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~tetris

Same way that people with sickle-cell anaemia still exist: being a carrier of the ailment protected you from other ailments (malaria in this case), and so it was never selected out of the gene pool by Nature

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Makes sense, now, in a way it couldn't have when I wrote what you responded to. Thank you!

(See also: the wool-covered blinders I too often feel too comfortable pulling tightly over my eyes.)