On the evolutionary origins of obesity: a new hypothesis

D Sellayah, FR Cagampang, RD Cox - Endocrinology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Obesity is an escalating threat of pandemic proportions, currently affecting billions of people
worldwide and exerting a devastating socioeconomic influence in industrialized countries …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of malaria transmission from the perspective of Amazon Anopheles vectors

PFP Pimenta, AS Orfano, AC Bahia… - Memórias do Instituto …, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
In the Americas, areas with a high risk of malaria transmission are mainly located in the
Amazon Forest, which extends across nine countries. One keystone step to understanding …

The Prevotella copri complex comprises four distinct clades underrepresented in westernized populations

A Tett, KD Huang, F Asnicar, H Fehlner-Peach… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
Prevotella copri is a common human gut microbe that has been both positively and
negatively associated with host health. In a cross-continent meta-analysis exploiting> 6,500 …

Early human dispersals within the Americas

JV Moreno-Mayar, L Vinner, P de Barros Damgaard… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Genetic studies of the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas have focused
on the timing and number of migrations from Siberia into North America. They show that …

Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas

B Llamas, L Fehren-Schmitz, G Valverde, J Soubrier… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The exact timing, route, and process of the initial peopling of the Americas remains uncertain
despite much research. Archaeological evidence indicates the presence of humans as far as …

Rapid radiation of humans in South America after the last glacial maximum: A radiocarbon-based study

L Prates, GG Politis, SI Perez - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The early peopling of the Americas has been one of the most hotly contested topics in
American anthropology and a research issue that draws archaeologists into a …

Evolutionary genomic dynamics of Peruvians before, during, and after the Inca Empire

DN Harris, W Song, AC Shetty… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Native Americans from the Amazon, Andes, and coastal geographic regions of South
America have a rich cultural heritage but are genetically understudied, therefore leading to …

Reconstructing Native American migrations from whole-genome and whole-exome data

S Gravel, F Zakharia, A Moreno-Estrada… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
There is great scientific and popular interest in understanding the genetic history of
populations in the Americas. We wish to understand when different regions of the continent …

Reconciling migration models to the Americas with the variation of North American native mitogenomes

A Achilli, UA Perego, H Lancioni… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
In this study we evaluated migration models to the Americas by using the information
contained in native mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from North America. Molecular …

An alternative model for the early peopling of southern South America revealed by analyses of three mitochondrial DNA haplogroups

M de Saint Pierre, CM Bravi, JMB Motti, N Fuku… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
After several years of research, there is now a consensus that America was populated from
Asia through Beringia, probably at the end of the Pleistocene. But many details such as the …