This book offers a completely new look at human history, where the only, main, and most powerful force determining the fate of many generations were… mosquitoes. For thousands of years, mosquitoes have influenced the future of entire empires and nations, destructively affected the economy, and determined the outcome of the major wars that killed nearly half of humankind. During our comparatively short existence, mosquitoes sent about 52 billion people to the next world out of a total population of 108 billion.
This book is about the greatest provider of death we’ve ever known. It’s a story of the reign of mosquitoes in the evolution of humankind and their indelible impact on our modern world order.