A sweeping look at how the major transform ations in history-from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism -have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted na rrative of progress\, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn \, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book\, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism ov erstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead\, i t is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires. Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archa eology and economics\, Pathogenesis takes us through 60\,000 years of hist ory\, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that have made the modern world. By placing disease at the center of his wide-ranging hi story of humankind\, Kennedy challenges some of the most fundamental assum ptions about our collective past-and urges us to view this moment as anoth er disease-driven inflection point that will change the course of history.
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