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Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
Context with Brad Harris
Urasia Pestis - The Most Lethal Microbe in Human History
Diamond argues that through millennia of intimate exposure to such diseases, eurasians deve d genetic resistance. The importance of lethal microbes in human history is well illustrated by europeans conquest and depopulation of the new world. Far more native americans died in bed from ura germs than on the battlefield from eurasian guns and swords. Urasian germs were far more lethal than urasian guns and steel.
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