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312 | Thomas Levenson on the Mutual History of Humans and Germs
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 312
The germ theory of disease is a crowning achievement of science, up there with modern physics, continental drift, and evolution via natural selection. (Even if there will always be cranky skeptics.) But the road to widespread acceptance isn't always an easy one. Why did it take so long between Anton van Leeuwenhoek…
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