Paul W. Ewald. "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 80 percent of all human cancer is caused by infection." — Paul W. Ewald. Of Ewald's theory: "It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think of." — evolutionary biologist William D. Hamilton. Publications Books Evolution of Infectious Disease (1994) Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease (2002) Articles "Transmission modes and the evolution of virulence" (1991) "The Evolution of Virulence: A Unifying Link between Parasitology and Ecology" (1995) "Guarding Against the MostDangerous Emerging Pathogens: Insights from Evolutionary Biology" (1996) "Vaccines as evolutionary tools: The virulence-antigen strategy" (1996) in Concepts in Vaccine Development "Alternative Transmission Modes and the Evolution of Virulence" (2002) in Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases "Virulence Management in Humans" (2002) in Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases Other publications by Paul Ewald on PubMed. See also Human Microbiome Project Koch's postulates Medical microbiology References External links Toward a unified, evolutionary theory of cancer, presentation by Paul Ewald 2016 Interview With Evolutionary Biologist Paul Ewald, by Amy Proal The Big Idea That Might Beat Cancer and Cut Health-Care Costs by 80 Percent by Andrew Grant, Discover Magazine, Sept 2009 A New Germ Theory: Part 1 by Judith Hooper, The Atlantic Monthly, Feb 1999 A New Germ Theory: Part 2: Antibiotics Against Heart Disease? A New Germ Theory: Part 3: The Great Synthesizer Can we domesticate germs? (TED2007) The Infection Connection by Harriet Washington, Psychology Today List of Human Diseases Linked to Infectious Pathogens 1950s births Living people Evolutionary biologists University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni University of California, Irvine alumni University of Louisville alumni