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Title: Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues by Christopher Wills ISBN: 0-201-32818-6 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (5 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Not worth it
Comment: I am a student working on a project/report for this book and sadly i had volutarily purchased it thinking i was in for a good book. Not the case. Although it is informative, most people aren't university professors reading up on their evolution. It is DULL and i ended up reading about 2/3 of the book because the project was due soon and you probably dont care, anyway i have since read the whole book and it bored me into writing this. Wills absolutely does not succeed in fulfilling its title. So if you are doing a project DO NOT PICK THIS BOOK. NEVAR. EVAR. sry Chris Wills...u did it to yourself...

Rating: 2
Summary: A singularly dull read
Comment: _Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues_ could have been a penetrating examination of the relationship between humanity and disease. Christopher Willis certainly had fertile ground to work, but the book ends up being a dull and pedantic trudge that fails to bring the best of the academic or the popular to the reader.

The text wanders through evolutionary biology and human history without any real sense of direction. The biographies and personal histories read like indifferent 'human interest' stories injected into an otherwise uninteresting science news broadcast.

Rating: 5
Summary: Read this book
Comment: Wills does not provide an exhaustive review of diseases, but selects illustrative examples. I find this preferable to a less in-depth discussion of a large number of diseases. His incorporation of personal experiences, and theoretical speculations on disease and diversity add breadth and depth to this book. I thought it was excellent.

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