The Black Death | 2. origins & spread
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The History of Asinia Pestis
Every time you have a new genum published, whether it's modern or ancient, it gives you more information about the evolutionary history of the whole species. As ever more ancient and modern samples of asinia pestis are sequenced, experts can begin to build up a picture of how the disease changed over time. And so then they 're able to take the fourteenth century sample and say, this is where it fits on the tree,. which is radically transform mative in thinking about the history of this disease in actual, concrete, historical time.
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