animals in shaping human disease environments and processes of state formation prior to the Columbian exchange. My overarching … the biogeographic roots of world inequality. I argue that this narrative pays insufficient attention to contrasting … patterns of human settlement in Africa and the Americas. I develop alternative hypotheses concerning the role of domesticated …

The authors have analyzed animal health data for the years 2006 through 2009 as reported by the World Organisation for … Animal Health (OIE)-the four most recent 'World animal health yearbooks' available when the analysis was prepared. The data … reporting transparency and competency. This report is not based on the 'real' world animal health situation, but on the best …

people and animals drive biodiversity loss. Recent environmental movements—including the rights of nature, animal rights, and … treatment of non-human animals. It also presents an alternative legal worldview—one informed by scientific, cultural, and … religious inputs. Current legal discussions operate in terms of “humans and animals”; such conceptions should shift towards a …