Global Health Professor on How Viruses Saved Humankind | JHS Ep. 875

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues author Jonathan Kennedy joins us to discuss how microscopic pathogens have shaped our world.

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What We Discuss with Jonathan:
0:00 - Shocking facts about viruses in the human genome
17:12 - Bacteria can pick what traits they want
26:23 - Disease in hunting vs agriculture vs industrial society
35:11 - Pushback on Jonathan's evidence
40:27 - Neolithic farmers mixing with hunter-gatherers
44:57 - The Roman sewage system & human immune systems
59:08 - The Black Death led to modern capitalism
1:10:55 - Why Native Americans got smallpox but the Spaniards didn't get sick
1:19:15 - Poverty and disease in 2023

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