Germs, genomes, and global history in the time of Covid-19

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ID12876346
AutoresK Harper (0000-0001-9313-0725, University of Oklahoma, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume15
Fascículo3
Páginas350-362
Data de publicação2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Global History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1740-0228 • E-ISSN: 1740-0236
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1740022820000273
OpenAlexW3095795624
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas1

The COVID-19 pandemic presents opportunities and challenges for historians working on the global history of health and disease. This article argues that the history of disease will benefit from interdisciplinary work that brings together historians, microbiologists, and archaeologists. Genomes are historical archives, in two complementary ways. Palaeogenomics provide direct access to genomes of the past, while phylogenetics furnish historical insight from evolutionary relationships. Both palaeogenomics and phylogenetics have already contributed enormously to the history of disease, helping us understand how human ecological transformation drives the evolution of our microparasites

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Ancient history · Biology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Environmental ethics · Evolutionary biology · Gene · Genealogy · Genome · Geography · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Pandemic · Phylogenetics · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Work (physics · World history · Engineering · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Genetics · Virology