#1237 Timothy Winegard - The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Timothy Weingard. He's associate professor of history at Colorado Mesa University. He's the author of several best-selling books.
And today we're going to talk about the mosquito, a human history of our deadliest predator. So Dr. Weingard, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Yeah, my pleasure as well.
Thank you for having me. So, I mean, you're an historian, so what motivated you to write a book about the mosquito? I mean, in what ways does the mosquito uh relate to our history as humans? So The Mosquito is actually my fifth book. I had written four previous books that were fairly academic in nature, revolving around the First World War and indigenous peoples globally.
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