Eating Brains: Cannibal Tribe Evolved Resistance to Fatal Disease

Friday, June 12, 2015 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Some members of a cannibalistic tribe in Papua New Guinea carry a gene that appears to protect against a fatal brain disease.

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