Veterinary epidemiologist, Ontario, Canada
David Waltner-Toews is a Canadian veterinary epidemiologist specializing in approaches to integrating the health of humans, other animals, and ecosystems. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, several internationally recognized textbooks, as well as fiction, poetry and science. These books include Food, Sex and Salmonella (2008), The Origin of Feces (2013), Eat the Beetles! (2017), On Pandemics (2020), A Conspiracy of Chickens (2022), and The Gravity of Love (2023). He lives in Ontario on land that is the traditional home of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe and Neutral People.
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Evolution
Kinship
Science must become attuned to the subtle conversations that pervade all life, from the primordial to the present
David Waltner-Toews
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Illness and disease
The wisdom of pandemics
Viruses are active agents, existing within rich lifeworlds. A safe future depends on understanding this evolutionary story
David Waltner-Toews