Humans think they’re in charge, but mosquitos rule the world—and have, arguably, been deadlier than wars.

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The blood of the new arrivals, and the mosquitoes that crossed with their ships, changed everything. Just 22 years after Columbus stepped onto Hispaniola, the local Taino population had dropped from between five and eight million people to just 26,000.

↩︎ The New Yorker

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