The New York Times, March 8, 2018 Link Thousands of years ago, a special child was born in the Sahara. At the time, this was not a desert; it was a green belt of savannas, woodlands, lakes and rivers. Bands of hunter-gatherers thrived there, catching fish and spearing hippos. A genetic mutation had altered the … Continue reading How One Child’s Sickle Cell Mutation Helped Protect the World From Malaria