Christopher Wills
Author of Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Co-evolution of People and Plagues

We had a chat with him on Wednesday, December 24, 1997. You can read a transcript here.


Yellow Fever, Black Goddess
The Co-evolution of People and Plagues
by Christopher Wills
(Addison-Wesley, 1997, $13.00)

Christopher Wills is a professor of biology at University of California, San Diego, where he works as an evolutionary biologist, conducting research on, among other things, the evolution of sex and recombination, using yeast as a model organism. He has written several other books, including The Wisdom of the Genes: New Pathways in Human Evolution and The Runaway Brain: The Evolution of Human Uniqueness.