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Podcast: The Jordan Harbinger Show
Episode: 875: Jonathan Kennedy | How Pathogens Have Shaped Our World
Description: Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues author Jonathan Kennedy joins us to discuss how microscopic pathogens have shaped our world.
What We Discuss with Jonathan Kennedy:
If we were to weigh all the bacteria on Earth, their mass would be about 1,000 times more than all humans. If all of the viruses on the planet were laid end to end, they would stretch for 100 million light years.
About eight percent of the human genome's DNA comes from retroviral infections we've endured over our evolution. From them, we've inherited memory and the ability to give...