Very interesting! But if I understand the paper correctly, the process that is explained there is not an advantage of not synthezising Vitamin C, but it is a separate process that helps with reducing the amount of Vitamin C required, so primates can live on solely dietary Vitamin C in the first place, right?
What surprises me about that is that I read before that Vitamin C to most animals tastes really bad, but not to primates because we need it to survive. So if losing endogenous Vitamin C production was just a case of "it doesn't hurt", it would mean that primates consumed enough Vitamin C through their diet before losing the ability that it didn't matter, otherwise it would have been a disadvantage, right? But at that point they would have probably disliked the taste.
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Very interesting! But if I understand the paper correctly, the process that is explained there is not an advantage of not synthezising Vitamin C, but it is a separate process that helps with reducing the amount of Vitamin C required, so primates can live on solely dietary Vitamin C in the first place, right?