GGR305H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: African Buffalo, Lascaux, Constant Contact
22 May 2016
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Why: being innovative couldn"t help but move to next steps, feedbacks drove domestication. One unintended effect of agriculture: disease spread. After paleolithic, moved into class of time marked by plague and vermin: nutrient deficiencies evident in skeletons. Neolithic side effects: increased disease load historically documented. Israelites speaking about fact that suddenly faced with disease. Relates to fact that a lot of people living together: in close quarters. Disease seems to have co-occurred with agriculture. Permanent settlements: living in same place had many advantages (avoid other bands, but also living in close quarters with own waste. Proximity to animals: suddenly dairy important aspect of life of eurasian populations. When domesticated animals got illnesses that hunter-gatherer ancestors never got. Proximity to animals: exchange of microbes between diff species, = zoonoses. = viruses + illnesses jump to diff species. Viruses and bacteria usually host-specific but given enough time can jump. Lots of diseases: small pox, distemper, rinderpest.
