Shaking the Viral Tree – a conversation with David Quammen

In this interview, science writer David Quammen, author of
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, speaks
about the root causes underlying the current pandemic and explores
the ways in which viruses are embedded in the same systems of
ecology and evolutionary biology that we are. As we disrupt wild
ecosystems and shake these viruses free, COVID-19 offers an
opportunity to reimagine our relationship with the natural world.
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