What Ada Palmer thinks about evolutionary biology

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Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas, professor at the University of Chicago, author of Inventing the Renaissance and the Terra Ignota novels, and writer of the blog Ex Urbe.

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1. 4 Jun 2020

   Our readingPlague receded from Europe through fourteen generations of natural selection, not through any advance in medicine.

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   Their wordswhen plague finally diminished in Europe, not because of any advance in medicine, but because fourteen generations of exposure gave natural selection time to work

   ↗Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Agesexurbe.com 6th of 6 in this piece