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Arrival of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia Changed Mosquito Menu, New Study Suggests


The ancestors of today’s malaria-spreading mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group may have shifted to feeding on humans around 1.8 million years ago, coinciding with the arrival of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia.

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