“It may seem strange to suggest that high levels of illness might make human beings tougher, but the effect on a society of relatively regular and lethal epidemics and the mortality they cause certainly might have created a level of resilience that most of us today probably don't possess.”
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The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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