The Mosquito
A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
by Timothy C. Winegard · first published 2019
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A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, this text shows how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate.
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on “Books on Thinking About Thinking” ↗"The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator" by Timothy Winegard is an excellent read on the topic of the Mosquito. I'm paraphrasing, but I think he mentions that, of all the humans that have ever lived,…
on “Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)” ↗Sure. No. 1. "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst" by Robert M. Sapolsky. No. 2. "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator" by Timothy C. Winegard. No. 3. "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution" by Gregory Zuckerman. No. 4. "Hacking Darwin:…
on “Books on Thinking About Thinking” ↗Timothy Winegard - The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator. Pro tip: there have been a lot of people before the current ones.
on “The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists” ↗According to the book "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator" by Timothy C. Winegard, the mosquito has killed an estimated 52 billion people from a total of 108 billion people that have ever lived. (Not sure how those…
on “Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)” ↗Currently reading "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator" By Timothy Winegard, and in it he suggests that the mosquito was introduced by Columbus and is not native to the Americas. If this is true (I dunno if it is),…
on “First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States” ↗