The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy
New Books in Biology and Evolution
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The History of Infectious Disease in the Americas
Ozzie the Iceman, he was very clear, very clearly a farmer and there's a few clues to that. In those two cases then, you're sort of speculating as to what the history might have been. But if you if you say that humans when they gathered in villages and towns and cities were more prone to disease, so basically infectious disease became a bigger factor in human development. Can you tell parallel stories about animals? I mean, are there animals that, you know, flocks and herds and that sort of thing and therefore their development is affected by infectious disease? No, definitely!
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