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IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts' own molecules. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution, where the majority of species are parasites. WELCOME TO EARTH. For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world's most successful and sophisticated organisms. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer…mehr
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction.
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts' own molecules.
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution, where the majority of species are parasites.
WELCOME TO EARTH.
For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world's most successful and sophisticated organisms. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer deftly balances the scientific and the disgusting as he takes readers on a fantastic voyage. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the fetid parasite haven of southern Sudan, Zimmer graphically brings to life how parasites can change DNA, rewire the brain, make men more distrustful and women more outgoing, and turn hosts into the living dead.
This thorough, gracefully written book brings parasites out into the open and uncovers what they can teach us about the most fundamental survival tactics in the universe.
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Autorenporträt
Carl Zimmer, author of At the Water's Edge, is a frequent contributor to Discover, National Geographic, Natural History, Nature, and Science. He is a winner of the Everett Clark Award for science journalism and the American Institute of Biological Sciences Media Award. A John S. Guggenheim Fellow, he has also received the Pan-American Health Organization Award for Excellence in International Health Reporting and the American Institute of Biological Sciences Media Award. His previous books include Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, Parasite Rex, and At the Water's Edge. He lives in Guilford, Connecticut.
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
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
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