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title: "David Waltner-Toews"
date: "2013-07-10T00:00:00+01:00"
modified: "2013-07-10T00:00:00+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/contributors/david-waltner-toews/"
post_id: 3804
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# David Waltner-Toews

David Waltner-Toews is a veterinarian, epidemiologist, scientist and popular author who specialises in diseases other animals share with humans. He is the author of *The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology and a Sustainable Society* (ECW Press, 2013).