LEADER 02488nam 2200385 450 001 9910808135203321 005 20230807203554.0 010 $a1-78064-685-2 035 $a(CKB)4950000000160567 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5897974 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000160567 100 $a20191009d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDisease selection $ethe way disease changed the world /$fRoger Webber 210 1$aOxfordshire, England ;$aBoston, Massachusetts :$cCABI,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 177 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 311 $a1-78064-683-6 327 $aThe sexual revolution -- Out of Africa -- Host/parasite interaction -- Using a vector -- The great plagues -- Missionaries of death -- The slave trade in parasites -- Eden's garden of South America -- A glass of water -- The great war -- Man's best friend? -- The animal connection -- Not clean -- Too clean -- The food we eat -- Cancer -- Climate change and population movements -- Disappeared and emergent diseases -- The future. 330 $a"Diseases have had more influence on us than we realize. They have taken a major role in making us humans and probably determine the way we run our lives. They emerged with us from our ancestral home in Africa, to spread to the rest of the planet. History is full of the great epidemics of plague, smallpox and anthrax, with the present catastrophe of HIV that is changing the demography of the world in a similar way to its predecessors. We survived because of our genetic variation and immune system and it will be this that will save us again. So fundamental has been the part that disease has played in the world that it has brought about change, just as much as has natural selection. Actually disease has been another force, sometimes acting with natural selection but often in opposition. It continues to have a far more profound effect on all of us than realized, selecting the course of the world just as much as nature has"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aCommunicable diseases$xHistory 615 0$aCommunicable diseases$xHistory. 676 $a616.9 700 $aWebber$b Roger$01157951 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808135203321 996 $aDisease selection$92704824 997 $aUNINA