Zimmer

Parasite Rex

Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Parasites can: rewrite DNA; rewire the brain; genetically engineer viruses as weapons; and turn healthy hosts into the living dead. This book follows researchers as they penetrate the mysteries of these omnipotent creatures who control evolution, ecxosystems, and perhaps the future of mankind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780743200110
• ISBN-10: 074320011X
• Artikelnr.: 20999362

Autorenporträt

Carl Zimmer

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Prologue: A Vein Is a River
First sightings of the inner world
1. Nature's Criminals
How parasites came to be hated by just about everyone
2. Terra Incognita
Swimming through the heart, fighting to the death
inside a caterpillar, and other parasitic adventures
3. The Thirty Years' War
How parasites provoke, manipulate, and get intimate
with our immune system
4. A Precise Horror
How parasites turn their hosts into castrated slaves,
drink blood, and manage to change the balance of nature
5. The Great Step Inward
Four billion years in the reign of Parasite Rex
6. Evolution from Within
The peacock's tail, the origin of species, and other battles
against the rules of evolution
7. The Two-Legged Host
How Homo sapiens grew up with creatures inside
8. How to Live in a Parasitic World
A sick planet, and how the most newly arrived parasite
can be part of a cure
Glossary
Notes
Further Reading and Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index