Bacteria on the Beach: Microcosm on Nature's Summer Reading List

Nature offers suggestions for summer reading in the latest issue, and  Microcosm is on the list. Don't worry–just because the book is about E. coli doesn't mean they'll have to close the beach:

What is life? Why do creatures cooperate? Why do living things die? Carl Zimmer, a leading writer on evolution, finds answers to these and other big questions in the most humble of places — the common gut microbe, Escherichia coli. In Zimmer's hands, E. coli becomes a window on to the basic properties of l