... diseases, although specific evidence of such evolved immunity is controversial and hard to pinpoint. More clearly, prior exposure has meant that in each community at least some portion of the adult population is likely to have been infected already (Cohen 137). Civilizations have therefore come to enjoy an advantage in dealing with infectious disease that results paradoxically because their social organization ... control decisions that appear to accompany sedentism and agriculture. This explanation fits the available data better than any competing hypothesis. There is no evidence from ...

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