Many neglected tropical diseases may have originated in the Paleolithic or before: new insights from genetics.
The standard view of modern human infectious diseases is that many of them arose during the Neolithic when animals were first domesticated, or afterwards. Here we review recent genetic and molecular clock estimates that point to a much older Paleolithic origin (2.5 million years ago to 10,000 years...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS),
2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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