Show 4: The Evolutionary Arms Race
Mutualistic Symbiosis
- Leaf-cutter Ants and Fungus
- Ants and Human Agricultural Parallels?
- Cameron Curry- Pest Management discovery among the ants
- "The only good germ is a dead one."
Domesticating Germs
- Harmfulness and Transmission
Microbes
- Are we too clean?
- Erika Mutius study
- Finding a balance
- This is just the beginning
- We need to learn more
Microscopic Predators
- Tuberculosis
- Black Plague
- 20th Cent = Penicillin
- Science had defeated infectious diseases?
Survival of the Wild Cats
"Arms Race"
The Tuberculosis Epidemic
- Liam Neeson (Narration is on point)
- "Arms Race" between Predator and Prey
- One of the driving forces in evolution
- Treatment and Drug Resistant TB
...the prisoner and the medical student
- We are not ready for an epidemic
...OVERUSE
Driving Biological Forces
- Oregon's deadliest animal
- Rough-Skinned Newt vs. Garter Snake
- "It is abundantly clear that evolution is not only caused by physical forces but also by biological forces and how species interact with each other" - Edward O. Wilson