Remembering Deborah Bird Rose (with Eben Kirksey) on Bats, Cosmopolitics & Viral Origin Stories скачать в хорошем качестве

Remembering Deborah Bird Rose (with Eben Kirksey) on Bats, Cosmopolitics & Viral Origin Stories

Deborah Bird Rose taught us that ecological communities—associations of predators and prey, omnivorous scavengers, parasites and hosts—depend on ongoing intergenerational cycles of life and death. In writing about Australian flying foxes (a large bat), she noted that these endangered keystone species have been participants in major catastrophic events of contemporary life on Earth: warfare, man-made mass death, famine, expulsion, urbanisation, emerging diseases, climate change, and biosecurity. Rose passed away recently. We will read her work in the context of genetic evidence suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 diverged from the most closely related bat coronavirus at some point between 1948 and 1982.