Episode 4: Constant Companions
Posted in podcasts, tagged genetics, history of science, history of medicine, houseflies, epidemic, disease, Burchell, dogs, flies, natural history, scientific expeditions, Cape Colony, empire, imperialism, race, South Africa, war on October 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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This episode considers some of the animals – big and small, welcome and unwelcome – that have accompanied us humans on our journeys through the history of scientific and medical discovery. Of course animals have been the subject of scientific study for centuries, but what we often forget is that they aren’t [...]
