Reuben check this out...

Albert Einstein said...the more we know learn about Mother Nature the more we know their is a God...

I used to think that survival of the fittest had mostly to do with being smarter, stronger, faster etc...

But not all these divers needed to have larger spleens to survive...surely human goodness would allow the great divers to share...it is possible that many many generations of divers withe the bigger spleens to reproduce themselves more often...then we could say it was the law of survival...

However...it seems that all the divers spleens were 1.5 times bigger than average...

So there are two questions...

Do the spleens get bigger the more they dive...kind of like a muscled up body builder...and lose it when they quit body building? I understand these guys can pump back up rather quickly compared to someone who has never lifted weights because of muscle memory...

Or...is it a combination of diving and some sort of genetic mutations taking place...almost like a sub species