The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy
New Books in Biology and Evolution
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The Impact of Infectious Diseases on the European Population
There's lots of fascinating things about this, but the bit that seems interesting to me is that people writing about it would normally have assumed it was military conquest or maybe trade routes and all these other explanations. But you've basically just given a really convincing argument that in fact it was disease. And so it's really hard to understand what happened without the impact of infectious diseases.
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