NEWSFLASH: there's deep genetic reasons why Europeans don't "Eat ze BUGZ."
Europeans and their colonial descendants have a deep rooted aversion to eating insects. New reseach finds it's not just cultural, it has a genetic origin going back thousands of years.
A new genomic study from Spain’s Institute of Evolutionary Biology analyzed dental calculus (tartar) from 745 ancient human samples across Eurasia, some up to 33,000 years old. They found almost no evidence of routine insect consumption in northern Eurasian populations — in stark contrast to humans in tropical regions and even Neanderthals.
Key findings:
• Northern Europeans showed very little insect DNA in their ancient dental tartar.
• Genes for chitin digesting enzymes (chitinases) carry mutations that reduce the ability to break down insect exoskeletons in northern Europeans. These mutations became fixed around 9,000 years ago.
• Neanderthals, who lived in the same environments, appear to have consumed insects more regularly (including fly larvae and mosquitoes), with better adapted chitinase genes.
Tropical populations of humans (as well as chimpanzees and gorillas) still carry genetic variants supporting higher chitin digestion, reflecting more consistent insect availability and consumption.
Lead researcher Pablo Librado explained: “The scarce presence of insects in the diet of northern Eurasians suggests that the absence of entomophagy is not solely due to recent cultural factors, but also to a long ecological and evolutionary history.”
Lower insect biomass and diversity at higher latitudes likely made regular entomophagy impractical, leading to genetic and cultural abandonment over millennia. Though the fact that Neanderthals consumed insects regularly throws doubt on this as a sole explanation.
The study highlights how deeply our diets have been shaped by our genomes and environments. It's a compelling look at the deep roots of what we do (and don’t) eat.
@136Division When in reality, it stops progress and cultural filtration.
That's why Indian culture is still crap meanwhile East Asian have created a functional society.
@136Division The low IQ behavior is, trying to make something greater when it is not.
The West collected all types of instrument and types and created the best music out of it.
Indians are lower IQ, they think adapting to something that didn't come out of their culture is a bad thing.
@Babygravy9 Literally civilization would do that.
We had many birds since childhood. Many of them got sick because of disease. We even slept near them to take care of them, tried to comfortable them on our laps, they still dead but the point is, humans naturally love animals.
It just takes 2-3 generational wise decisions to increase the value of your people.
More people=less quality= more suffering.
Less people=high quality= less suffering.
India's fertility rate has fallen to 1.9, the first time in modern history its gone below replacement rate.
If this trend continues, India's population will gradually decline.
@KOBCOB2 imagine thinking a Sikh who is getting paid for his job in the UK is protecting you.
That's was his job, literally everyone could have replaced him. There is highly chance you are also connected to Indians with some relationship that's why you are pushing it.
One of the most fascinating thing in this entire video is, white dude isn't even responding and totally ignoring him which is really a higher IQ behavior but it is also wild how people think he is not saying anything because he is weak.
🚨BREAKING: Henry Nowak’s killers mother, Kiran Kaur, was KNOWN to the police for a previous knife related offence 🇬🇧
I have heard ENOUGH - his brother, his mother, his whole family should be DEPORTED IMMEDIATELY 🚫
@trilogy237@ClubShayShay@neiltyson Do you really believe your people won't have killed a d conquered if they had the same amount of power?
Your tribes mercilessly kill each others.
@trilogy237@ClubShayShay@neiltyson "Lack of humanity"
If your people would have the same amount of power as them. The earth would have been living hell for everyone.
Humans ain't good because of the sake of it. Humans are good because they don't have ultimate power to corrupt them.
@China_surpass@PhdDavinsky Everything is copied.
Its just Benn 100 years , a transitional state. They are coping now, but once they surpassed the West. They would do their own work.
Greeks did the same, Arabs did the same, Europe did the same. Read some history.
@SilencedSaxon You sound just like an Indian.
If you want them to go back, then simply force your politicans to change rules and deport.
Don't be a coward.