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

Name: Parasite Rex (with a New Epilogue) Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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ISBN: 9780743200110

ISBN-10: 074320011X

ISBN-13: 9780743200110

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Carl Zimmer

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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 deftly balances the scientific and the disgusting as he takes readers on a fantastic voyage. Traveling from the…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 11/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Carl Zimmer writes the monthly essay in the US magazine Natural History, having inherited this position from Stephen Jay Gould.



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