This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society, (Paperback)

from sethwilpan

Among the most momentous revelations in recent years have been those scientific discoveries that undermine the postulation that humans are rational actors. Books like "Thinking Fast and Slow" reveal the we operate from irrational biases that are vestiges of ancestral adaptive behavior. Freakonimc...

from bness2

Fascinating book about the long history of humans and parasites, using many animal examples along the way. We are just beginning to learn the ways that parasites interact with the human brain. Much of the research reviewed in this book is so new that it has yet to have been corroborated by work o...

from steve02476

Started out ok, but kind of wandered from the topic (parasites deliberately influencing the hosts behavior) and the last few chapters felt like filler. (In the acknowledgements section she even mentions a few times that she had trouble with her publisher's deadline!) I'd be happy to read a magazi...