About the Authors

Charles L. Nunn

cnunn@oeb.harvard.edu.

Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter H. Thrall

Affiliation CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

Fabian H. Leendertz

Affiliation Research Group Emerging Zoonoses, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Christophe Boesch

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CLN PHT FHL CB. Performed the experiments: CLN. Analyzed the data: CLN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLN. Wrote the paper: CLN PHT FHL CB.