GGR329H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bantu Languages, Austronesian Languages, Environmental Determinism
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Draw jared diamond"s schematic overview of the chains of causation leading up to proximate historical factors from ultimate historical factors (or, in other words, the factors underlying the broadest patterns of history). Henry dobyns states that european-introduced diseases killed up to 95% of all native americans. Dobyns argued that scholars ignored the disease-induced decline that occurred between european arrival in the americas and their contact with each tribe. Why should a germ evolve the apparently self-defeating strategy of killing its host: microbes wait for their host to be eaten by another host. Insects to humans (saliva of insect that bites host: flies off and bites new host (causes malaria, typhus and plagues) From mother to fetus (syphilis, rubella, aids: modify anatomy/habits of hosts to assist transmission. Genital sores (syphilis), skin lesions (smallpox), cough (influenza: attack directly from the host (hook worms and schistosomes)
