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The people that drink poisoned water


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The people that drink POISON: Desert dwellers have evolved the ability to tolerate water laced with arsenic

    The water in the Atacama desert is heavily contaminated by toxic arsenic
    It has more than 100 times over the World Health Organisation's safe limit
    People living in the arid region in Chile have evolved the ability to digest poison
    Desert dwellers possess a unique genetic variant of the enzyme AS3MT


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4252110/Atacama-desert-people-evolve-ability-drink-poison.html#ixzz4ZeHzGzPu

 

 

 

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Interesting! An example of the biological ability to adapt to ones environment over a period of time. Granted a protracted period but still shows the process at work!

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Probably not a good idea to get rid of regulations against poisoning water, anyway. I like my water sans arsenic. 

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