Natural Security -Week 1

I chose this book because I'm interested in learning how evolutionary biologists are trying to improve national security and  help change public policy, with their background. I think this topic is very relevant today because of rapid globalization the technology we have.
One of the authors, Terence Taylor worked for the British Army and the UN and investigated the Iraqi biological weapons, and the other, Raphael Sagarin, is a marine ecologist and works on environmental policy. I am looking forward to see how they bring their own experiences into this book.
Natural Security is about "global terrorism, infectious diseases, and natural disasters," and that also somewhat reminds me of the Cobra Event book that I read and enjoyed in high school and made me want to learn more about the field of epidemiology. I am also an international studies major, so world politics and cultures (along with evolution of course!) are what I find to be very fascinating. And I want to see how the author ties in evolutionary biology with that.