The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy
New Books in Biology and Evolution
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The Evolution of Covid
Covid was an unwitting secret weapon that the Europeans carried with them. It's also interesting to think about the psychological impact that this would have had on the Native Americans because of course this was centuries before germ theory. This must have just seemed like the conquering population had better gods. So I think this can maybe explain the further with which the American populations adopted Christianity and the continued kind of impact of the Catholic Church in this region.
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