CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: Phytanic Acid Metabolism

[@carinaekstrom1]

So does this mean that humans have evolved guts that are better at ridding itself of the potentially toxic phytanic acid?

[@tonyhurt5581]

Our guts became smaller when we began fermenting and then cooking our food many hundreds of thousands of years ago.

[@kupofdirt6509]

Very cool