Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests - Phys.org
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Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests - Phys.org

Source:Phys.Org
Author:Conrad Duncan

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme injury, according to new research.