5/7 What about the feedbacks? Human niche expansions likely impacted evolution. It coincides with the emergence of the constellation of features defining humans today. There were also feedbacks: as people exploited new areas and ecosystems, they encountered diseases.
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Malaria has shaped human habitat choice, exchange, and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa.
