The Upside of 50,000 Years of Venereal Disease

Or, We have always lived with that cold sore

Tomorrow, I’ll finish up “The Trouble with Classifying Nature”, a two-parter for Thorough Thursday that explores some of the myths we’ve spun around early humans—both from Abrahamic faith traditions, and well into modern scientific explanations.

Part 1 took two weeks to get “right”, and Part 2 did as well—but so it goes. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by ho…