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INSECTS AND HISTORY by John Treherne , Ph.D. Unit of Insect Physiology Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge
Insect-borne malaria still menaces millions of human beings. What would be the effect of its eradication? No one can yet tell, but Dr. Treherne .looks at the known effects that two insects have had on man's history-the anopheline mosquito in relation to the origins of European civilisation, and the tsetse fly in the destiny of the southern African continent.

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