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  • Research discovers malaria devastating humans far earlier than expected

    03/16/2021 9:41:15 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 21 replies
    EurekAlert! ^ | March 12, 2021 | University of Otago
    New bioarchaeological research shows malaria has threatened human communities for more than 7000 years, earlier than when the onset of farming was thought to have sparked its devastating arrival..."Until now we've believed malaria became a global threat to humans when we turned to farming, but our research shows in at least Southeast Asia this disease was a threat to human groups well before that."This research providing a new cornerstone of malaria's evolution with humans is a great achievement by the entire team," Dr Vlok says...While malaria is invisible in the archaeological record, the disease has changed the evolutionary history of...