Meet the early hominin that gave us genital herpes: Paranthropus boisei, a heavy-set, dish-faced, bipedal hominid. Herpes simplex virus (HSV) 2, which causes genital herpes, jumped back to hominins from early chimpanzees between 1·4 million and 3 million years ago. Using Bayesian modelling of HSV data and information about the climate in ancient Africa, UK researchers identified P boisei as the hominin most likely to have been in contact with ancestral chimps. From there, the virus made its way to our ancestor, Homo erectus.

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研究简报

认识一下给我们带来生殖器疱疹的早期人类素：Paranthropus boisei，一种沉重的，盘状的，两足的人类。导致生殖器疱疹的单纯疱疹病毒（HSV）2在1·400万至300万年前之间从早期的黑猩猩跃回为人参。英国研究人员使用HSV数据的贝叶斯模型和有关古代非洲气候的信息，确定了Boisei是最有可能与祖先黑猩猩接触的人种。从那里，该病毒进入了我们的祖先直立人。