Analysis: Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk

Dawn ME Bowdish, McMaster University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. When the sky becomes orange and hazy from wildfire smoke, modern humans are at greater risk than our earlier ancestors would have been. This is because mutations that occurred tens of thousands of years [...] Read More... The post Analysis: Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk appeared first on McMaster News .