Prehistoric Global Migration of Vanishing Gut Microbes With Humans
Matthew M. Carter, Zhiru Liu, Matthew R. Olm, Melanie Martin, Daniel D. Sprockett, Parsa Ghadermazi, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard S Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, Daniel Eid Rodríguez, David A. Relman, Erica Dutil Sonnenburg, Michael Gurven, Benjamin H. Good, Justin Laine Sonnenburg
The paper compares gut microbiomes of Tsimane and Hadza populations to show that many microbes co-migrated with humans globally, but are now vanishing in industrialized populations.
Nature · Oct 7, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology