I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life - Brossura

Yong, Ed

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847924182 ISBN 13: 9781847924186

Casa editrice: Bodley Head, 2016

Riassunto

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017

Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It’s an entire world, a colony full of life.

In other words, you contain multitudes.

These microscopic companions sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth.

In I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong opens our eyes and invites us to marvel at ourselves and other animals in a new light, less as individuals and more as thriving ecosystems.

We learn the invisible and wondrous science behind the corals that construct mighty reefs and the squid that create their own light shows. We see how bacteria can alter our response to cancer-fighting drugs, tune our immune system, influence our evolution, and even modify our genetic make-up. And we meet the scientists who are manipulating these microscopic partners to our advantage.

In a million tiny ways, I Contain Multitudes will radically change the way you think about the natural world, and the way you see yourself.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer who reports for The Atlantic. His blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, is hosted by National Geographic, and his work has also appeared in Wired, the New York Times, Nature, the BBC, New Scientist, Scientific American, the Guardian, The Times and more. He lives in London.

You can find him on twitter @edyong209 and sign up to his weekly newsletter, The Ed's Up, on http://tinyletter.com/edyong209/.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Bodley Head
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1847924182
• ISBN 13: 9781847924186
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile