Although Chimps and Apes genetics is similar to ours, they rarely live past 50. The difference is because human genes evolved so it enables us to better adjust to levels of infection and inflammation and to high cholesetrol levels of their meat. In the December issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science these differences in DNA sequencing and improvements makes us susceptible to diseases of aging like cancer, heart disease and dementia. This was caused by the fact that before cooking, the ingestion of red meat, in particular raw meat infected with a parasite stimulated chronic inflammation that leads to these aging diseases. Besides differences in diet, it is also caused because humans have unique variants in a cholesterol transporting gene, apoliprotein E, which regulates inflammation and aspects of aging in the brain and arteries.
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B. Kohler
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