Talk:Evolutionary baggage

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Please move this article back[edit]

The title was, and should be, Evolutionary baggage. The capital B in baggage resulted from a move in November 2009. I don't know how to move articles, but this one should be moved back, please. --Hordaland (talk) 07:29, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! --Hordaland (talk) 14:32, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Type I diabetes may not be the best example[edit]

See the Hygiene hypothesis for why. It could very well be that the loss of a co-evolutionary parasite (the hookworm) is evolutionary baggage, too, as we have a lost a regulator of our immune system, which prevents self-attack...Hires an editor (talk) 19:58, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Other causes of type I diabetes, such as the Hygiene hypothesis you suggest, appear far more plausible than the very slight lowering of the freezing point of blood that would result from the increased amount of dissolved sugar. A diabetic blood sugar level of 200 mg/deciliter (0.2%) would lower the freezing point of blood only around 1/50 of a degree Celsius, and in any case death from hypothermia typically ensues long before one's blood freezes.CharlesHBennett (talk) 12:03, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sickle-cell Anemia?[edit]

Sickle-cell Anemia might be a great example of Evolutionary Baggage. I wouldn't know where to begin to find the sources for that though, so I'm just gonna suggest it here. 97.106.146.39 (talk) 00:10, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]