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

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

Mutations that occurred tens of thousands of years ago made humans uniquely sensitive to particulate air pollution.

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