## Metadata - Author: [[David Quammen]] - Full Title: Spillover - Category: #books ## Highlights - These pathogens aren’t consciously hiding, of course. They reside where they do and transmit as they do because those happenstance options have worked for them in the past, yielding opportunities for survival and reproduction. By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. ([Location 198](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00856PC4K&location=198)) - To put the matter in its starkest form: Human-caused ecological pressures and disruptions are bringing animal pathogens ever more into contact with human populations, while human technology and behavior are spreading those pathogens ever more widely and quickly. ([Location 463](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00856PC4K&location=463))