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Diseases and human evolution
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[2005]
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xii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Contents:
- Introduction
- The war between microbes and men
- Early humans and their diseases
- The seeds of change
- Mosquitoes, malaria, and gene wars
- Invitation to a minute worm: the schistosomes
- Braving new worlds: invisible enemies of settlers
- Domesticated animals and disease
- Cows, mycobacteria, and tuberculosis
- The moral disease: leprosy
- The coming of civilization
- Syphilis: the great change artist
- Memories of smallpox
- Pestilence, plague, and rats
- Of lice and men: plus ticks, mites, and chiggers
- Marching to a new world order: European expansion and the Industrial Revolution
- Route to fame and gripe: cholera, the salmonella gang, and other prominent gut bugs
- Transoceanic hitchhikers: yellow fever and its Dengue cousin
- Food for thought: they mystery diseases
- The globalization of influenza
- Diseases of modern civilization
- The new viral wars and sleeping dragons
- Back to the future.