Re: Weak Vampires?

Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx>:
Conceivably with deliberate intervention. Say there's been a cult
that drinks human blood for a /very/ long time, they become dependent
on it - just like actually we (I think all mammals?) have a gene to
produce vitamin C, but it's /broken/, so we need vitamin C in our
diet. This arose because we /had/ vitamin C in our diet.

Slight correction; it could arise because we had sufficient vitamin C in
"our" (it is the higher primates, IIRC) diet. Random mutation, not a
problem, linked to other usefull traits/founder effect/bottleneck
effect, and Bobs yer UNCLE.

/Par

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