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The Story of Christopher Columbus and the “Columbian Exchange”
In the book The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, Alfred Crosby demonstrates that, while the obvious exchange between the Old World and the New World is its people going back and forth, such a view, which focuses only on the bodies of the people, is very narrow and omits the exchange of the culture of the peoples and the massive biological transfer between the Old and New World.