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Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years

2025-06-04

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<h4>Summary</h4> The mechanisms driving the spatial organisation of early human societies in Africa are typically addressed through climate variables 1-3 . However, genetic and archaeological studies have also suggested diseases as a major source of selection in the Pleistocene. Here, we explore whether P. falciparum -induced malaria, a major world disease, drove habitat choice in human societies between 74 and...

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Literature Corpus work: 68a2fd85-5899-58de-8a56-5df6a04cbc9b
DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.04.657870

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