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Big Epidemiology: Disease at Civilization Scale
A framework essay for thinking about disease across deep time, infrastructure, migration, ecology, empire, and the systems civilizations build.
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By Devin Teichrow. Published April 11, 2026.
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A framework essay for thinking about disease across deep time, infrastructure, migration, ecology, empire, and the systems civilizations build.
At a 2011 TED conference, historian David Christian asked a deceptively simple question: when did history begin?
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