Origin of syphilis in New World

New study confirms that Syphilis was brought from new world by Columbus' crew and it is a bacterial adaptation to a colder climate. Also, eating  of marine food can throw off carbon dating because high levels of "old carbon" that is upwelled from the ocean bottom and absorbed by sea animals.  #Anthropology

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/eu-spt122011.php



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