Anna Karenina’s Principle And Some Non-Bach’s Fugues.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its way.

Agustín Muñoz-Sanz
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The current pandemic is interesting in many aspects. For example, let put focus on the close relationship among different biological worlds. In concrete, on three life forms: microbes, animals, and humans.

Vivien Leigh as Anna Karenina in ‘Anna Karenina’ (1948). Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Coronaviruses stand out as the protagonists of the first biological group. The second one is an assembly of several animals. As bats, palm civets, Arabian dromedaries, pangolins, minks, felines, dogs, and pigs. These animals have flown and grazed by social and by media networks.

And, without leaving the animal world, humans. Remember, we, the humans, are the star genus, the most evolved species of hominids. I suppose.

Human evolution. Credit image: Eugene Zhyvchik on Unsplash.

Although the issue of the microbe-animal-human trio may seem novel, it is not. The relationship between each other is ancient. It dates to the advent of domestication. About 10,000–15,000 years ago. It was the time when the crossing and…

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Agustín Muñoz-Sanz
ILLUMINATION

Medical Doctor (Infectious Diseases specialist/Professor of Medicine) and writer (narrative, theater).