Gut microbes across continents trace ancient human migration
A study, from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members and Clark Center resident faculty members Justin Sonnenburg and Benjamin Good, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member David Relman, and co-lead authors Stanford Bio-X Fellow Zhiru Liu, Dr. Matthew Carter, and Dr. Matthew Olm, of the microbiome of groups in Africa and South America indicates that diverse gut microbes joined us as we migrated out of Africa — a diversity that is lost among industrialized peoples.
