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When did humans stop synthesizing vitamin C?

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The inability of humans to produce our own vitamin C is a metabolic error that affects all of us, a genetic quirk we share with other primates like apes and monkeys. This fundamental biological change prompts the question: when did humans stop synthesizing vitamin C, and what happened as a result?