Parasite Rex (with a New Epilogue): Inside...

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Beschreibung

Zimmer takes readers on a tour of the strange and bizarre world of parasites, including their ability to rewrite DNA, rewire the brain, and genetically engineer viruses as weapons. 16-page photo insert.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Prologue: A Vein Is a River
First sightings of the inner world

• Nature's Criminals

How parasites came to be hated by just about everyone
• Terra Incognita

Swimming through the heart, fighting to the death

inside a caterpillar, and other parasitic adventures
• The Thirty Years' War

How parasites provoke, manipulate, and get intimate

with our immune system
• A Precise Horror

How parasites turn their hosts into castrated slaves,

drink blood, and manage to change the balance of nature
• The Great Step Inward

Four billion years in the reign of Parasite Rex
• Evolution from Within

The peacock's tail, the origin of species, and other battles

against the rules of evolution
• The Two-Legged Host

How Homo sapiens grew up with creatures inside
• 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

Erscheinungsjahr:	2002
Fachbereich:	Grundlagen
Genre:	Biologie
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780743200110
ISBN-10:	074320011X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Zimmer
Hersteller:	Simon & Schuster Ltd
Maße:	215 x 139 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Zimmer
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.01.2002
Gewicht:	0,33 kg

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