Controlled fire use in early humans might have triggered the evolutionary emergence of tuberculosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 32, 2016, Pages 9051-9056

  Chisholm, Rebecca H ^a   Trauer, James M ^b   Curnoed, Darren ^a   Tanaka, Mark M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Epidemiology; Mathematical modeling; Pathogen evolution; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BIOMASS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; EXPOSURE; FIRE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; TUBERCULOSIS; ANIMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIRES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84982957829     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1603224113     Document Type: Article

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