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Just when I thought my home state couldn't embarrass me more by being backwards... Thanks!
I've heard more about my home state's alleged consumption of squirrel brain outside the state than in it. And I have a couple kitschy KY cookbooks with recipes for burgoo, entirely rodent free. Every place will have hillbillies who eat odd game meat, if you search hard enough. KY just seems to be a popular target for this topic.
Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims
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If they can replicate imperfectly, they're subject that evolutionary processes.
They don't replicate. Prions can't themselves make more prions like viruses do.
Whether that replication can be incorrect and produce a different kind of prion, I don't know. If it can, evolution will do its work.
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the prevalence of the PNRP gene is much better explained by periods of time when humans were very cannibalistic. This makes more sense behaviorally as well, since humans are very difficult to program with instincts. I would bet dollars to donuts that the average hunter gatherer/early farmer had no such revulsion. Meat is meat.
Well here is the major point: there is only one prion (PRNP), for which all mammals seem to be susceptible to disease. It would be odd if deer and sheep had coevolved the same resistances and susceptibility to PRNP due to human cannibalism
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Well here is the major point: there is only one prion (PRNP), for which all mammals seem to be susceptible to disease. It would be odd if deer and sheep had coevolved the same resistances and susceptibility to PRNP due to human cannibalism
prevalence is not existence.