Re:Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
by thehappypm on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:37PM
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I’ve read that most human viruses jumped from domesticated animals. The pre-Columbian American peoples notoriously had almost no domesticated animals, with I think just one exception being the llama. So I think that’s supposedly the primary factor, less so raw population.
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Re:Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
by Robotbeat on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:12PM
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Indeed, I even mentioned that. ;)
> ”Similar argument if you base it off of… number of domesticated animals…”
But again, I think that fact isn’t surprising, either, considering the Old world is much larger and had more wild animals and more humans than the New World.