Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years
Margherita Colucci, Michela Leonardi, James Blinkhorn…·Eleanor M. L. Scerri
The paper estimates malaria transmission risk in sub-Saharan Africa over 74 kya and shows humans avoided malaria hotspots, shaping demography and population structure.
DOI 10.1101/2025.06.04.657870