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> ...vertebrate...Before machine-mediated transportation— trains, planes, boats and cars—individuals were likely to be exposed to the majority of pathogens in their local geography by the time of reproductive age

This hypothesis would be testable by looking at migrating animals, such as gray whales or arctic terns.

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