Difference between revisions of "Timeline of parasitology"

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This is a timeline of parasitology, attempting to focus on human parasitology.

Time period	Development summary	More details
Paleolithic	Since the emergence of Homo sapiens in eastern Africa, humans spread throughout the world, possibly in several waves, migrating to and inhabiting virtually the whole of the face of the Earth, bringing some parasites with them and collecting others on the way.^[1]
10,000 BP	First Agricultural Revolution, from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture. Humans acquire parasites from animals with which they come in contact during agricultural practices.^[1]
1500<	The slave trade, which would flourish for three and a half centuries from about 1500, bring new parasites to the New World from the Old World.^[1]

Year	Month and date	Event type	Details
150,000 BP	Homo sapiens emerge in eastern Africa
3,000–400 BC	The first written records of what are almost certainly parasitic infections come from this period of Egyptian medicine, particularly the Ebers papyrus of 1500 BC discovered at Thebes.^[1]

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