Parasite Rex (with a New Epilogue) : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures (Paperback)

from myfanwy

One of the chief features of this book is that it focuses not only on parasites that affect humans but on parasites that affect all animals. To be clear, they focused on non-virus, non-bacteria -- ...

from co_coyote

Here is another fascinating book by Carl Zimmer, clearly one of my new favorite science writers. The subtitle of this book is Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures, and it i...

from bgknighton

Interesting theory. Good points. We know all is not always as it seems and everything has its place. It makes sense to me. As much as we might want to rid ourselves and create a perfect, pure, ster...

from TheDivineOomba

I picked up this book, not expecting much. The book was written in 2000, and these types of books tend to be hit or miss, mostly miss. Instead what I found was a very well written book, that will c...

from satyridae

"When it comes to the tapestry of life, parasites are a hand at the loom." What a delight of a book! Cogent and penetrating analysis of the history and evolution of parasites and how they affect u...