Big Pharma — Microbiome

Ancient gut microbiomes shed light on human evolution A new study on the microbiomes of our ancestors offers hypotheses about the influence of microbes on our early social and daily lives Newswise — The microbiome of our ancestors might have been more important for human evolution than previously thought, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. An adaptive gut microbiome could have been critical for human dispersal, allowing our ancestors to survive in new geographic areas. "In this paper, we begin to consider what the microbiomes of our ancestors might have been like and how they...