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I'd really, really like to see what the world would be like today if a single butterfly's wings had flapped slightly faster back in 5000 B.C.
Along the same idea, but much more likely to yield radical differences to the future of human society, I'd like to know what would have happened if some ancient bottleneck epidemic had not happened or had happened differently (killed more or fewer people, or just different individuals). Much or all of the human gene pool after that altered event would be different.
I'd like to see a world in which all ancestor-types of humans through to the last common ancestor with chimps still lived in many places.
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I'd be pretty interested in seeing the results of this set of Malaria-resistance mutations having been more widespread.