Lumpenprole
Since: Jul, 2011
Apr 6th 2020 at 4:08:18 PM
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Re. natural immunity of natives to jungle diseases such as malaria: for the most part this is simply that the adult natives are the minority who survived bouts of disease as infants or young children, which each generation going through a similar culling. When Liberia was founded as a paternalistic attempt to "repatriate" freed slaves "back to" Africa, most of them died of disease as swiftly as Europeans did.
Arivne
Since: Jan, 2001
Aug 27th 2013 at 12:49:27 AM
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Deleted the following from the Literature - Robert A. Heinlein - Tunnel in the Sky example for being Natter that violated Example Indentation.
- Part of the time. The book is realistic in that it's not like the entire planet is jungle; they eventually move out to something that's more of a savannah, in part because there are distinct advantages to this relative to being in the forest.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Only somewhat related to the trope.
, started by DragonQuestZ on Jan 13th 2011 at 5:36:16 PM
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