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Where did the different blood types come from?

Human blood types most likely came to exist to fend off infectious diseases. The incompatibility of some blood types, however, is just an accident of evolution. There are four main blood types. Blood type A is the most ancient, and it existed before the human species evolved from its hominid ancestors.

What makes the 4 blood types different?

Whether your blood type is A, B, AB or O depends on whether you have, or don’t have, certain antigens (named A and B) on your red cells. The presence or absence of A or B antigens gives us four main blood types: A type blood has only A antigens on red blood cells. B type blood has only B antigens on red blood cells.

What nationality has O type blood?

In the United States, type O- is the most common blood type. Broken down by race, type O-‘s prevalence is 37\% among Caucasians, 47\% among African Americans, 39\% among Asians, and 53\% among Latino-Americans, according to the American Red Cross.

What blood type does not get Covid?

Blood type O seems to have the lowest risk. Yet these risks are relative, meaning people with type O blood are not immune to COVID-19. “We do know that people of all types can get infected with COVID-19,” says cardiologist Daniel Anderson, MD, PhD.

What blood type is not likely to get Covid?

Early in the pandemic, some reports suggested people with A-type blood were more susceptible to COVID, while those with O-type blood were less so. But a review of nearly 108,000 patients in a three-state health network has found no link at all between blood type and COVID risk.

Which blood type is the unhealthiest?

People with types AB and B are at the greatest risk, which could be a result of higher rates of inflammation for these blood types. A heart-healthy lifestyle is particularly important for people with types AB and B blood.

What is the difference between O and AB blood types?

Persons with blood type O are so-called universal donors, since they can give blood to anyone having any of the blood types A, B, O or AB. Persons with blood type AB on the other hand, can give blood only to persons with AB blood type. A person with blood type A can not give blood to a person with blood type B and vice versa.

Which blood type is the original blood type?

Only if the father and mother are A and B or B and A blood type can the child have any of the human blood groups A, B, AB or O. This negates current theory that O is the original blood type, especially since the man-apes have little or no O blood type and no AB blood type. A and B are very likely the originals.

What are the different blood types and donations?

Group O can donate red blood cells to anybody. It’s the universal donor. Group AB can donate to other AB’s but can receive from all others. Group B can donate red blood cells to B’s and AB’s. Group A can donate red blood cells to A’s and AB’s. There are more than 600 other known antigens, the presence or absence of which creates “rare blood types.”

What is the original blood type of Man-Apes?

Only if the father and mother are A and B or B and A blood type can the child have any of the human blood groups A, B, AB or O. This negates current theory that O is the original blood type, especially since the man-apes have little or no O blood type and no AB blood type.