降临人间的瘟疫
Plagues upon the Earth
Kyle Harper · 初版 2021 年
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“Plagues upon the Earth 是一部关于人类文明以及塑造其进程的微生物的历史。在我们这个物种过去的每一个阶段，微观生物都对人类社会的发展产生了宏观层面的深远影响。Kyle Harper 提出了首部充分利用全新革命性证据的人类疾病史著作：将病原体基因组视作生物档案以及通往史前时代的窗口。如今，我们终于能够在分子层面重构人类疾病的自然史，追溯那些一直困扰我们物种的病毒、细菌和原虫的生命史。这部传奇
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我在 2022 年读过的最好的非虚构类书籍是《Plagues Upon the Earth》（https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57423807-plagues-upon-th...），一部人类传染病史。它真的改变了我对很多事情的看法，尤其是很多传染病居然直到那么晚近才……
The best non-fiction book I read in 2022 was Plagues Upon the Earth (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57423807-plagues-upon-th...) a history of infectious disease in humans. It really changed my views on a lot of things, especially how recently many contagious diseases…
《Plagues Upon the Earth》在瘟疫这一点上可能更切题，人类社会与传染病在历史长河中的协同进化占据了核心舞台。
Plagues Upon the Earth is maybe even more on point to the plague bit in particular, with the co-evolution of human society and infectious disease over history taking the front stage.
这是一期播客节目，采访了《Plagues Upon the Earth》的作者、俄克拉荷马大学历史学家 Kyle Harper。音频直链：https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBN2511895438.mp3
This is a podcast episode and interview with the author of Plagues Upon the Earth, Oklahoma University historian Kyle Harper. Direct audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBN2511895438.mp3
……“出了岔子”在我看来是有误导性的，更好的表述应该是，这种黄金时代从一开始就只是在苟延残喘、借时间度日而已。Harper 在一期播客中探讨了《Plagues Upon the Earth》里的类似主题：<https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBN2511895438.mp3>。
…"something went wrong" seems to me misled, and a better formulation would be that such golden ages were living on borrowed time in the first place. Podcast episode of Harper addressing a similar theme from Plagues Upon the Earth: <https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBN2511895438.mp3>.