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# Paul W. Ewald

(1950)   Evolutionary Biologist

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Paul W. Ewald is an evolutionary biologist.

## Quick Facts About Paul W. Ewald

Born January 1, 1950

Profession Evolutionary Biologist

## About Paul W. Ewald

evolutionary biologist... \| Paul W. Ewald is an American evolutionary biologist, specializing in the evolutionary ecology of parasitism, evolutionary medicine, agonistic behavior, and pollination biology. He is the author of Evolution of Infectious Disease (1994) and Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease (2002), and is c

##  Quotes by Paul W. Ewald

> [Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-w-ewald/like-many-great-ideas-in-biology-the-idea-implicating-infectious/)

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> [If I were going to put my money on it, I would bet that by 2050—hopefully earlier—we’ll have found that more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-w-ewald/if-i-were-going-to-put-my-money-on-it-i-would-bet-that-by-2050/)

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> [It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-w-ewald/it-opens-our-eyes-to-many-quite-weird-possibilities-about-disease/)

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