Article
Hunter-gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure
2022-05-03
Abstract excerpt
Ancestral humans evolved a complex social structure still observed in extant hunter-gatherers. Here we investigate the effects of extensive sociality and mobility on the oral microbiome of 138 Agta hunter-gatherers from the Philippines. Comparisons of microbiome composition showed that the Agta are more similar to Central African Bayaka hunter-gatherers than to neighboring farmers. We also defined the Agta social...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b05eb3b9-dfef-5d7e-9c8e-8f5780a5d2a1
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.05.03.489993
