Each adaptation allowed our ancestors to live longer, whether visible like a darkening of skin pigmentation (to prevent UV damage to DNA) or invisible like how well the body stores and burns fat. Then, about 6,000 years ago we formed civilisations and began travelling to previously unreachable destinations to form new communities which shared elements of each other’s ancestral traits, both advantageous and not.

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