Sentences with phrase «other ancient diseases»
The team believe their methodology can be used to unravel the transmission mysteries of other ancient diseases — such as human pubic lice, also introduced via an intermediate hominin from ancestral gorillas over 3 million years ago.
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Different forms of malaria, which is now known to be an ancient disease, may have been at work many millions of years ago and probably had other implications affecting the outcome of vertebrate survival, Poinar said.
In 30 years of studying diseases revealed in the fossil record, Poinar has documented the ancient presence of such diseases as malaria, leishmania, and others.
«The ancient iconic symbolism and cultural impact of the olive tree in Europe and the Mediterranean gives this disease an impact I haven't experienced with grapes, citrus and other crops that were hit suddenly with Xylella,» he told Scientific American on Skype.
They add: «What is similar between now and then is the human genetic material, our genome, including ancient polymorphisms that were uncovered to predispose the carrier to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease... however, our ancient ancestors were certainly susceptible to many other conditions, such as infectious diseases, nutritional deprivation, and trauma, which often resulted in death at an early age, before atherosclerotic heart disease had a clinical impact.»
Yes, I do think it's important to point out that there are some of us (I'm celiac, but people with other immune diseases like the two commentors above) who can never have gluten, ancient grains or not.