Harper, Kyle

Kyle Harper

Speaker Profile

Kyle Harper is the G. T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma and Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.

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The Last Animal: Human History and the Fate of Life on Earth from the Ice Age to the Sixth Extinction Kyle Harper
From the acclaimed author of The Fate of Rome and Plagues upon the Earth, a monumental history of the world that lays bare the devastating human toll on animal life
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Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History Kyle Harper
A sweeping germ鈥檚-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics
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The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire Kyle Harper
How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world
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Kyle Harper on Plagues upon the Earth Plagues upon the Earth聽is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity鈥檚 uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted dee... Read More

PUP Speaks: Kyle Harper on a germ鈥檚-eye view of history In the immortal words of the rock band The Doors, people are strange. From nature鈥檚 perspective, human beings are highly unusual. Kyle Harper shows how humans became the irresistible hosts of so many diseases, and how it has shaped us as a species. Read More