tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post1344002869028580395..comments2024-03-27T00:26:19.644+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: Germ Warfare in BrazilRosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-940923911338922352014-07-12T09:50:09.990+01:002014-07-12T09:50:09.990+01:00Diamond's book is especially valuable on this ...Diamond's book is especially valuable on this point. I had always wondered, if the Europeans had so many diseases to which the Indians lacked resistance, why didn't the Indians also have endemic diseases to which Europeans lacked resistance, which would have traveled back with the ships and wiped out most of the population of Eurasia? The book finally answered that question. Ancient Eurasians who domesticated animals were, unknowingly, changing not only those animals' evolution, but their own.Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.com