Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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We used to make our own vitamin C until a single gene broke. Most mammals still have it. But now we’re one orange away from scurvy. Maybe evolution thought we didn’t need it anymore. What did we trade it for?

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