[SEASON PREMIERE] Dense but homogeneous populations

Season 3 Pandemics and Beyond
Episode 1 Dense but homogeneous populations

"... The spread of infectious diseases requires densely inhabited conditions, which is tantamount to requiring civilization itself. Civilization has the innate concept of a dense population... One byproduct of civilization is that it allows its certain beneficiary groups, such as those that first invented agriculture, to breed in large numbers with relatively homogeneous genotypes, and as a result create a susceptible population in an epidemiological sense..."