Natural selection contributed to immunological differences between human hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists
G. F. Harrison, J. Sanz, J. Boulais, M. J. Mina, J.-C. Grenier, Y. Leng, A. Dumaine, V. Yotova, C. M. Bergey, S. J. Elledge, E. Schurr, L. Quintana-Murci, G. H. Perry, L. B. Barreiro
The paper compares transcriptional immune responses between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists, finding greater divergence in viral response and evidence of natural selection in hunter-gatherers.
bioRxiv · Dec 4, 2018Evolutionary Biology