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Future pandemics will have the same human causes as ancient outbreaks − lessons from anthropology can help prevent them

  • Written by Ron Barrett, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College
imageThe changes that came with the transition from foraging to farming paved the way for disease.Nastasic/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century.

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