Carl Zimmer
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Body art meets popular science in this elegant, mind-blowing collection, written by renowned science writer Carl Zimmer. This fascinating book showcases hundreds of eye-catching tattoos that pay tribute to various scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology and neuroscience to mathematics and astrophysics, and reveals the stories of the individuals who chose to inscribe their obsessions in their skin. Best of all, each tattoo provides a leaping-off...
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For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and the darkest shadows of science. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer takes listeners on a fantastic voyage into the secret universe of these extraordinary life-forms-which are not only among the most highly evolved on Earth, but make up the majority of life's diversity. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the parasite-riddled war zone of southern Sudan, Zimmer introduces...
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In 2020, an invisible germ - a virus - wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists...
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En esta breve pero sustanciosa historia, premiada por su excepcionalidad por la revista Choice, Carl Zimmer nos cuenta cómo los organismos más pequeños que la ciencia ha descubierto (y sobre cuya condición de "seres vivos" no hay acuerdo), son capaces de ponerle freno a la humanidad entera. Y cuánto podemos aprender de la manera en que, en el pasado, ya los hemos derrotado.
Solíamos estas más familiarizados con la gripe común, ahora sabemos...
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Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.
A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2022, selected by guest editor Carl Zimmer and series editor Jaime Green.
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Penguin Publishing Group
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2018
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English
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Presents a history of the human understanding of heredity and how it has shaped society, chronicling the transitions brought about by genetic research and making predictions about how evolving understandings are likely to impact the future.