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How human disease changed history, with Dr Jonathan Kennedy

Instant Genius

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Pathogenesis: A History of Infectious Diseases

The author has just written a book called Pathogenesis. He says it aims to transform the way that we think about history. The only reason humans don't lay eggs is because they're virus, he writes. How could evolution have been different if viruses had never infected us?

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