The Rules of Contagion
Simplified phylogenetic tree for viruses in different host species. Dashed lines show estimated times when viruses diverged fro ...
been a lot of time for evolution, which suggests the original virus was introduced a while ago. These methods are now commonly u ...
the sense that their genetic sequence gradually changes over time. Occasionally this evolution will lead to a difference we care ...
researchers during this period, I’d like to think it was mostly a matter of obliviousness rather than malicious intentions. Scie ...
from. Although Bedford and Neher initially focused on flu, the platform now tracks everything from Zika to tuberculosis.[16] Nex ...
According to Jamie Tehrani, an anthropologist at Durham University, we can think of culture as information that mutates as it ge ...
between the stories.[19] His analysis would produce an unexpected conclusion: based on the phylogenetic tree, it seemed that ‘Th ...
with tales in many other cultures, from Indian to Arabic. Phylogenetic analysis confirms just how much story borrowing there has ...
the story of a girl who explores the family home of a mother, father, and baby. The twist, of course, being that it’s a family o ...
known as ‘vertical transmission’. Alternatively, tales may blend across communities in the same generation, in a process of ‘hor ...
all dolphins in Shark Bay would go on to use ‘sponging’. Only around one in ten have picked up the technique.[32] Why hasn’t the ...
mutations often pass horizontally within the same generation. Just as software developers might copy and paste code between file ...
into disarray after discovering hidden adoptions or infidelity in a Christmas ancestry test.[38] We’ve already seen how data abo ...
knew a US citizen’s age, gender, and ZIP code, in many cases you could narrow it down to a single person. At the time, several m ...
First, he showed how a person might stalk celebrities. After hours spent trawling through a search of images for ‘celebrities in ...
to estimate where viruses might spread next, helping emergency teams support displaced populations after natural disasters, or s ...
data brokers has emerged. These companies have been buying movement data from hundreds of apps that people have given GPS access ...
opposite the doctor, beside him, or along the corridor. As the disease spread, there was an urgent need to understand the new vi ...
with two different types of hepatitis virus. One type, which we now call hepatitis A, spread from person-to-person, whereas hepa ...
continue. Much of our understanding of typhoid comes from studies involving US prisoners in the 1950s and 1960s.[63] Then, of co ...
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