ANT203Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Smallpox, Black Death
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Mesolithic (middle stone age): modern humans are here. Neolithic (10k years ago): farming starts and dietary patterns change. Age of death: hard to identify (we do have older individuals in neolithic but dating is hard) Modern hunter-gatherer are not good proxies for older ones as they do interact with agriculturalists and are pushed to sidelines due to agriculture artificially creates feast famine issues (now people are better at storing food) Hypothesis that cd4 conferred advatange to black death (now its disproven) Cd4 confers hiv resistance, in the past it probably provided small pox advantage. Abdel: changes in epidemiology as overtime we have shifted in the sorts of diseases that have. Transition impacted us: pestilence reservoir, pandemics, chronic: eating more exercising less. : higher rate of transmission if overcrowding for infectious diseases (creates larger. : nutrition helped this to decline which was folloewd by sanitation and prevention. Chain of infection: how disease moves from one person to the other.
