Timeline for Mosquito protection for an ancient rainforest civilization?
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 16:40 | vote | accept | kingledion | ||
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| Jan 24, 2017 at 21:23 | answer | added | Miguel Bartelsman | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Jan 22, 2017 at 3:52 | comment | added | Zxyrra | @ErinThursby I agree that the answers are fine. Of course there's no way to tell if it was one person, but the downvotes appeared to happen at or close to the same time, and entire questions with their answers are seldom wholly downvoted - making me think one person was responsible. | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 3:45 | comment | added | Erin Thursby | @Zxyrra do you think it's a single person? how can you tell? There's a -1 to the question itself as well. I think all the answers, while short, are decent enough. | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 0:13 | comment | added | Strawberry | sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110428123931.htm | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 23:37 | comment | added | Zxyrra | Would the person who downvoted all answers care to comment ... seeing as they don't themself have a better answer? | |
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| Jan 21, 2017 at 18:04 | comment | added | Erin Thursby | If it is rampant the ones that are immune will be naturally selected LONG before they develop agriculture. Sickle cell, Thalassemia, and other changes might happen in your population, as it did in areas where the primitive population never figured things out. | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 17:30 | answer | added | Zxyrra | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 16:51 | history | edited | kingledion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 21, 2017 at 16:50 | comment | added | kingledion | @Catalyst As agriculture develops, this civilization is able to move from scattered bands to permanent villages to densely populated floodplains and cities. While making this transition, what kind of mosquito defenses can they come up with to keep them from all dying of malaria by the time they live in densely populated cities. | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 16:11 | comment | added | EveryBitHelps | Yeah. That's why I did say it would be tricky. Your people could at least manage to keep their living communities dry...er. At a 'close' glance you can see the white stripes on a black mosquito that is one of the species identifying markers that can carry malaria. But how they would figured that out would be another story altogether. | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 16:10 | comment | added | Catalyst | Can you clarify what you mean by the phrase, "alongside agriculture?" I honestly don't know whether your intent is to exclude botanical mosquito repellants (see Citronella) or botanical treatments for mosquito-borne illnesses (see Quinine.) | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 16:07 | comment | added | kingledion | @EveryBitHelps I doubt that kind of drainage is possible in a place that gets 20 cm of rain every month of the year. Also, I don't know how you would tell mosquito species apart in the Iron Age or earlier. | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 15:59 | comment | added | EveryBitHelps | Only certain species of Mosquitos can carry certain diseases like malaria or dengue fever. So you only have to control those ones. Also, Mosquitos like standing stagnant water. So your civilisation has to learn from an early period to drain pools of water in the fields into a free flowing canal or river. This may be a little tricky in a rainforest. While it won't stop the disease spreading it will reduce the concentration of Mosquitos. | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 15:54 | answer | added | b.Lorenz | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 15:36 | answer | added | ThreeLifes | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 15:18 | history | asked | kingledion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |