Infectious Diseases in Primitive Societies: Many common diseases are not maintained in primitive society and probably did not affect human evolution.
Abstract
Incidence of various infectious diseases in several Amazon Indian tribes has been determined serologically. Diseases that infect only man fall into two distinct categories. Those which can persist in an individual for a prolonged period are highly endemic, but those which are infectious only in the acute phase die out quickly after introduction. The suggestion is made that the latter diseases could not perpetuate themselves before the advent of advanced cultures and did not exert selective pressures on the human genetic constitution until relatively recently.
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Disease ecology is expected to differ between hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists due to differences in population density, sedentism and proximity to domesticated animals.
“Disease ecology is expected to differ between hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists as well, due to differences in population density, sedentism and proximity to domesticated animals [19], which should affect levels of infection-induced inflammation and rates of physical decline and chronic disease; yet hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists display similar age-schedules of survivorship [20], [21”
From Physical Activity and Modernization among Bolivian Amerindians (2013) · cites this paper as [19]
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- Authors
- Black, F. L.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Black, Francis L.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1975-02-14
- Volume
- 187
- Issue
- 4176
- Pages
- 515-518
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2032510327
- Cited by
- 217
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 44.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Indigenous Health and Education
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Medicine and Tropical Health
- Keywords
- infectious diseases, Amazonian indigenous peoples, seroprevalence, disease incidence, endemic disease, acute infectious diseases, disease persistence, prehistoric human populations
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Antibodies, Bacterial, Antibodies, Viral, Child, Communicable Diseases, Disease Outbreaks, Female, Herpes Simplex, Humans, Indians, South American, Male, Middle Aged, South America, Syphilis, Treponema pallidum, Virus Diseases, Simplexvirus
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