Yellow Fever Black Goddess, Christopher Wills
Yellow Fever Black Goddess, Christopher Wills
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Yellow Fever Black Goddess
The Coevolution of People and Plagues

Author: Christopher Wills

Narrator: Richard M. Davidson

Unabridged: 12 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/28/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, Science


Synopsis

In this remarkable account, evolutionary biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a voyage of discovery through the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge with such disastrous results for our species. It is our knowledge of their secret lives, the eons spent quietly passing in and out of myriad other life forms, mutating and coadapting, that gives us hope of taming them. By putting these organisms—from bubonic plague to Ebola—at center-stage, Wills shows how we will eventually master them.

Reviews

Goodreads review by fourtriplezed on July 22, 2021

I will admit to reading this because of the present pandemic that is Covid19. Was it worth the read? Yes. I learnt a lot but do realise that it is outdated in parts, being released in 1996. The chapter on AIDS was definitely way past it’s used by date, as advances in that area are even noted by a co......more

Goodreads review by Joselito Honestly on May 10, 2020

A common belief is that this Covid-19 pandemic is something evil and that we must therefore wage war against it and pray to God that it be gone from our lives forever (as if viruses were created by the Devil and we must fight them with God by our side). This book, which gave me a headache reading its......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on October 17, 2008

One of my favorite disease history books.......more

Goodreads review by Robert on October 21, 2021

This molecular biologist finds the book a fascinating read. The book is written in engaging style, is dense with information, and (for me) full of surprises about the interplay between humans and their pathogens, creating evolutionary pressures in both. It is difficult to understand comments about h......more

Goodreads review by Liam on October 21, 2022

I don't have either the expertise or any reason to doubt the accuracy of this book nor its intelligence. What I can criticize is its readability. I found the book dull beyond words. I wanted to enjoy it and was attracted to the subject but just couldn't get into it. In all probability my failing.......more