The origin of human pathogens

Gabriel Trueba

doi:10.1007/978-4-431-55120-1_1

The origin of human pathogens

Gabriel Trueba^*

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Abstract

Modern human infectious diseases are thought to have originated in domestic animals during the Neolithic period or afterwards. However, recent genetic, phylogeographic and molecular clock analyses of microbial genomes point to a much older Paleolithic origin (2.5 million to 10,000 years ago) and suggest that many of these pathogens coevolved with ancestral hominids in Africa. Another group of human pathogens seems to have derived recently from non-human hominids.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Confronting Emerging Zoonoses
Subtitle of host publication	The One Health Paradigm
Publisher	Springer Japan
Pages	3-11
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9784431551201
ISBN (Print)	4431551190, 9784431551195
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55120-1_1
State	Published - 1 Jun 2014

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Evolution
Molecular clock
Phylogeny
Zoonosis

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The origin of human pathogens

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