HLTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Epidemiological Transition, Evolutionary Ecology
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Agriculture and social classes with differential access to resources. Initiating of social classes: people stratified by what they did, relatively wealth in terms of land, or political influence, their social power, reputation. etc. That stratification is significant because it means now that different people have differential access to resources. Now, everyone tends to have equal access to resources. Concept of macro parasitism to understand the changing pattern of inequality: when organisms appropriate others as continuing sources of food and energy, we can characterize that relationship as parasitism. Social stratification within societies and between them is an evolutionary strategy that we consider macroparasitism". Numerous epidemics in europe from 16th century onward (influenza, plague, tuberculosis, smallpox, measles, cholera) Picture/graph how disease changed over time (refer to reading) We can track overtime the major cultural events (neolithic revolution) and how we can think of people in relation to the cultural events.
