In the immortal words of the rock band The Doors, people are strange. From nature鈥檚 perspective, human beings are highly unusual. Plagues upon the Earth author and PUP Speaks speaker Kyle Harper shows how humans became the irresistible hosts of so many diseases, and how it has shaped us as a species.
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Kyle Harper is Professor of Classics and Letters and Provost Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma. He is a historian of the ancient world whose work has spanned economic, environmental, and social history. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, which has been translated into twelve languages, and Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History, which demonstrates how deadly diseases have shaped history鈥攁nd why they are products of our success as a species.