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The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

Rob Dunn

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Biologist Rob Dunn reveals the crucial influence that other species have upon our health, our well-being, and our world in The Wild Life of Our Bodies through the hidden truths of nature and codependence. Dunn illuminates the nuanced, often imperceptible relationships that exist between homo sapiens and other species, relationships that underpin humanity’s ability to thriv ...more

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Apr 24, 2021 Petra thinks angsty emails should stay as drafts rated it it was amazing

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Musings. Like all evolutionary books, this one puts us in our place, just one of the life forms interdependent on each other. When I was young and learning about atoms and molecules, the solar system seemed to me to be a gigantic atom. And I wondered about size. We can construct the finest nets and yet neutrinos are so small they can pass through it with ease.

So I wondered if there were many worlds, that we lived on our atom called Solar System and thought we were big but really to the gigantic Musings. Like all evolutionary books, this one puts us in our place, just one of the life forms interdependent on each other. When I was young and learning about atoms and molecules, the solar system seemed to me to be a gigantic atom. And I wondered about size. We can construct the finest nets and yet neutrinos are so small they can pass through it with ease.

So I wondered if there were many worlds, that we lived on our atom called Solar System and thought we were big but really to the gigantic systems, the bigger atoms, and biggest atoms, and the living creatures that inhabited the planets that whirled around them, we could fit on the head of one of their pins. Just as atoms could on one of ours. Size is all. If you are tiny, skin pores look like entrances. If you are gigantic you don't even see the little things excavating your skin as explorers might through caves.

And all that musing is kind of true. Our bodies are homes to vast numbers of microbes and bacteria that if they could think that way might think of us as vast as the Milky Way.

Others live happily in our guts helping us digest food, a symbiotic relationship. Still others prevent us from getting certain diseases and we harvest them from other people if we lose our own, think of CDiff and faecal implants (ok don't think too much on those). We are all interdependent on each other.
And we have all been shaped by evolution, we have evolved together into a state of homeostatis, happiness, until an intruder comes calling. But we can defend ourselves, tiny cells in our blood are organised into chemical armies and wage wars against them, virus, bacteria or parasite. And all of these viruses, bacteria or parasites might be home to even smaller living things. "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so on ad infinitum."

That is sort of what the book is about, but it's more concrete with lots of anecdotes, a little weak on the science, but still a good book. Sometimes it takes me a long time to get round to a review because I don't know what to say. And sometimes what I have to say is just the thoughts the book brings to my head, and are by no means a review at all. Which is ok, there are plenty of other more en pointe reviews to check out. ...more

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Dec 16, 2011 Jenny Brown rated it did not like it

The subject matter of this book is extremely interesting. Unfortunately, the author dumbed down his text to the level of a cable channel documentary so that you won't learn very much actual science from reading the book.

He gives many pages to long, detailed accounts of human interest anecdotes that don't contribute anything to our understanding of his topic--for example, the discovery of an early hominid fossil or one patient's trip to Mexico to get a treatment based on a theory he discusses. T ...more

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Apr 07, 2016 Stephie Williams rated it really liked it

This book examines what are lives are like without the various species we evolved with. In a lot of cases we face issues we never had to face with them. There are plenty of things to think about when reading this book.

After an introduction in part one, part two explores why we might be afflicted with Crohn's Disease and other auto-immune diseases in the developed world, but not in other parts of the world. The answer very well might be that we in the modern world with its cleanliness and health This book examines what are lives are like without the various species we evolved with. In a lot of cases we face issues we never had to face with them. There are plenty of things to think about when reading this book.

After an introduction in part one, part two explores why we might be afflicted with Crohn's Disease and other auto-immune diseases in the developed world, but not in other parts of the world. The answer very well might be that we in the modern world with its cleanliness and health care are missing the worms that infect the rest less fortunate part of the world. Less fortunate in the sense that they live without what we have come to rely on and aspect. If we factor in their lack of Crohn's Disease and its like, the matter might not seem so clear. One scientist wondered about our lack of worms, and if it could be responsible for these diseases. In an actual clinical trial Crohn's patient were given a benign species of hookworms, and most of those given the worms either improved or went in to remission. The reason that auto-immune diseases are prevalent might be that without the worms in our bodies for the immune system to fight it attacks our own bodies. Of course, there is a lot more research needed to provide that direct link. It's possible that there could be alternative explanations, or it might be only a part of the explanation.

The next part covers the trillions of bacterica that live in and on us. Research has shown that a lot of the bacteria in our guts are beneficial. These bacteria help us digest fiber and play a role in our immune system. Other research has shown a correlation between low fiber diets and colon cancer. The appendix is discussed as being a beneficial organ, long thought to be a relic and useless. Studies have shown that a particular antibody we have actually benefits good bacteria in our appendix. In the developing world where the incidence of appendicitis is rare the appendix replenishes their guts with the good bacteria that live in the appendix after a bout with common diarrheal diseases. Without the need to repopulate our guts in the developed world the appendix can become blotted and rupture, sending the bacteria into the body cavity where it can have deadly consequences. Again more research is needed to improve our understanding of our interaction with the bacteria that could be considered a part of us.

Part four covers how domestication of plants and animals have changed us. For me there was not much of interest in this part, except for lactose intolerence was reverse in cultures that domesticated cows and other milk producing species.

The subject of part five is the relationship we had and now have with predators. There is a theory that poisonous snakes are responsible for our excellent color vision. In other primates, the better the vision, the more poisonous snakes were in the environment. There are other explanations for color vision, such as the ability to spot nutritious fruits. The modern plague of anxiety disorders may involve a misdirection of fear from predators we used to come across with some frequency.

In part six the creatures that live on or did live on us are discussed. There is a theory that our hairlessness, which evolved in relation to lice, ticks, and other bugs that dine on our blood, has led to xenophobia. This theory could be a stretch, but is plausaible. Our hairlessness has also led to our being prone to skin cancers.

The final part is on how we could make are city environments more like those we evolved in. Massive rooftop gardens and whole vacant buildings acting as natural cliff environments, which are thought to be part of our evolutionary environment. This section I view as pie in the sky type thinking. Although I believe we need people to dream big, because good things have often come with those dreams and people.

The book as a whole is pretty good. It was for the most part interesting throughout. I like the fact that the author presents experiments that support the various theories proposed in the book. The author also did not actually do any of the experiments or propose any of the theories explained in the book. But, like a good scientist he assesses the different theories and their weaknesses, which all of them basically had.

I would recommend the book for those interest in our evolution with other species in our environments, and what might be the result of not having them in our environment anymore. Like I said the author is careful in presenting the facts, based on experiments, and the proposed theories. This should be appreciated by readers who value honesty by an author in presenting hers or his ideas. I think it is incumbent upon an author to present known and possible problems with his or hers ideas being presented. ...more

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Nov 15, 2011 Mary Ronan Drew rated it it was amazing

Joel Weinstock was flying somewhere over New York or Pennsylvania when he got his crazy idea. He had been studying intestinal parasites. That day he began reading about Crohn's Disease. Why, he wondered, did people who had intestinal worms not have Crohn's and people who had Crohn's never have intestinal parasites? Could it be that worms prevented Crohn's? Naw. Impossible.

But he couldn't get the idea out of his head. In the 1940s half of American children had worms. In 1980 there were something Joel Weinstock was flying somewhere over New York or Pennsylvania when he got his crazy idea. He had been studying intestinal parasites. That day he began reading about Crohn's Disease. Why, he wondered, did people who had intestinal worms not have Crohn's and people who had Crohn's never have intestinal parasites? Could it be that worms prevented Crohn's? Naw. Impossible.

But he couldn't get the idea out of his head. In the 1940s half of American children had worms. In 1980 there were something like 10 times more people with Crohn's than in 1940. This is a pretty strong correlation. Weinstock decided to see what happened when he gave whip worm eggs to people with inflammatory intestinal disease.

In March of 1999 29 well-informed and consenting patients were given Gatorade laced with whipworm eggs. And by week 24 of the study all but one of the patients were doing better and 22 of the remaining 25 (some, understandably, dropped out of the study) were in remission. These were patients with serious and untreatable Crohn's. And having worms made them healthier.

Deborah Wade had an exceedingly bad case of Crohn's disease. She read about Weinstock's experiment and in 2007 she decided she wanted to try the worm treatment. So she found someone (a non-MD in an unlicensed Mexican clinic) who would give her a drink of worms. "The endeavor felt more like adopting a pet than modern medicine - a long, translucent, sucker-mouthed companion animal."

Deborah Wade is not cured, but she is better. And so are other people with autoimmune diseases who have been treated with worms. Why would "rewilding" your body, as the author calls it, keep autoimmunie disease under control? How does it work? They aren't really sure but it has something to do with cells produced by chronic worm infestation that help to tamp down the excessive reactions of Lupus and asthma and Crohn's.

This is just one of the dozens of puzzling and sometimes alarming stories Rob Dunn tells in his amusing book about The Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today. The author offers some convincing explanations for how cows domesticated humans, how lice and fleas made us naked, and the exceedingly useful role of our appendix.

Most of us who are primarily readers of fiction, ex-English majors, literature junkies, are distressingly ignorant about science. This makes reading popular science written by people like Dunn and Natalie Angier so entertaining. So much is going on out there in the world of botany and astronomy and ecology. Books like The Wild Life of Our Bodies begin to give us a hint of how much we are missing.

Read Rob Dunn's blog here: http://www.yourwildlife.org/ ...more

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Sep 14, 2011 Lauren rated it liked it

Shelves: science

I liked this book, but as a microbiologist, I found the science behind the assertions to be either dumbed down or not explained fully. For example, in the case of intestinal worms improving auto-immune diseases, it would have been nice to see any evidence of a mechanism behind this phenomenon, rather than vague hand-waving about the immune system chasing things that aren't there. I did like many of the ideas in the book, but I found the book to have an overall negative tone that was distracting. ...more

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Jun 24, 2012 Claire rated it liked it

Started out as notable, scientific, informative, disgustingly fun. What is the appendix for? Can intestinal parasites cure us of bowel diseases? And more. But as it goes, the writing is inconsistent at best. Instead of presenting interesting scientific findings about our bodies, Dunn puts more and more effort into first the secret life of scientists (how an anthropologist's new idea unraveled as she made eggs for breakfast!), and then into thought experiments that are not at all fleshed out, eit ...more

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Jan 21, 2012 Kili rated it it was amazing

Humans like to think of themselves as different from other living things. Germs and parasites are bad: we should eliminate them. After all, it's what our immune system does. In this book, Dunn argues quite convincingly that this is a destructive view. Species don't evolve in isolation of other species - predators and their prey engage in an evolutionary arms race (which explains, for example, why mollusks have thicker shells in the Pacific as compared to the Atlantic), symbiosis is found all ove Humans like to think of themselves as different from other living things. Germs and parasites are bad: we should eliminate them. After all, it's what our immune system does. In this book, Dunn argues quite convincingly that this is a destructive view. Species don't evolve in isolation of other species - predators and their prey engage in an evolutionary arms race (which explains, for example, why mollusks have thicker shells in the Pacific as compared to the Atlantic), symbiosis is found all over (for example, our immune system encourages the creation of biofilms), perhaps why tapeworms are proving to be an effective method of controlling certain autoimmune disorders, and why a large number of "pest" species (rats, pigeons, dandelions, bedbugs, etc) come from narrow ecological niches (cliffs and caves).

When Dunn discusses human evolution and its impact on what we currently are, he doesn't draw the line that I automatically drew: that of being human. Of course, this is an arbitrary line, and I drew it because of my own bias of thinking of humans as being different from other living things. Like other old-world primates, our eyes see colors and we are good at spotting certain shapes, the latter being important in our use of writing for communication. Our long history of being prey (going way before your ancestors lost their tails) still has an impact on how we live - and amuse ourselves.

Dunn also opened my eyes on how our myths diverge from what probably happened. For example, how agriculture and domestication of cattle were likely acts of desperation. (I'd love to see Dunn and Harvard primatologist Richard Wrangham collaborate on applying Dunn's approach of coevolution to the emergence of cooking). I was reading this part while walking to the metro on my morning commute to NSF: this section made me stop to think. I looked around at the people around me - I was standing in front of the National Geographic building - and saw the "obesity epidemic" around me in a much different light. (A paragraph or so later, Dunn touched on this topic, so all I had done was anticipate him).

The author Rob Dunn is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at NC State. Given the state of science in the popular mind of the United States, scientists like Rob are wonderful - not only does he have the ability to explain complex ideas in a clear manner, he actively enlists the public to join him in his research. Spend some time at the wildlife blog of his lab. (Rob seems like a natural for TED, and I was surprised to see he was not one of the speakers, but the way he is popularizing his part of science can have much broader impact than what TED offers). I read his 2004 Science paper "Species Coextinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis" - the paper that first attempted to estimate the rate of coextinction of species - which shows his interest in this topic goes back quite far. ...more

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Nov 22, 2021 Janice rated it it was amazing

Entertaining and informative look at our bodies and how we move in the world. Well written so that lay folks as well as health care workers and scientists can listen(or read) and not get bored.

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Sep 16, 2011 Chris rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction

Other reviews mirror many of my thoughts - I really wished the final chapter was fleshed out into two or more chapters. And for some reason I had this idea that the author was going to promote the idea of having our cities be wild to the extent that predators would be let loose there. I kept hoping to read about that somewhere in the last chapter, but I must have missed it.

Don't get me wrong, the other stuff about the evolution of mankind from H&G to Agricultural to our post-agricultural age; ye ...more

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Jun 24, 2011 Jennie rated it liked it

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This book packed such a knowledge punch I am somewhat at a loss for words even days after reading the last page. One of the things I admired most while reading this book was how science was at the forefront – research, evolution and the beginning of mankind in forms that we would hardly recognize now. This book covers a range of topics from the lack of worms in our guts, to how STD’s have changed since we have become pro-less hair. Every page was fascinating and full of ideas that let your mind ...more

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Apr 16, 2012 gabrielle rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: everyone who has any interest in what it means to be alive.

Recommended to gabrielle by: myrmecos, I think

Shelves: science, post-apocalyptic

This book is, in essence, about what it means to be human: "...our bodies and lives only make sense in the context of other species."

It completely blew me away. (I am going to buy it next time I'm at Powell's, and I'm a die-hard library user.)

Unlike Dunn's other book (_Every Living Thing_), which I also loved, you do not have to be a biologist or even a scientist to maximize your enjoyment here. _The Wild Life_ is much more accessible to the layperson. I'm recommending it to pretty much everyone ...more

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Sep 21, 2011 Anne rated it did not like it

I didn't actually finish the book, so take my review with the appropriate grains of salt. This is a book about one of the most fascinating topics imaginable, and it's written in such a cutesy, condescending, dumbed-down, frivolous way that it's almost unbearable to read.

In fact I'd call it irresponsibly frivolous in some parts, such as the "upbeat" story of the guy who just *had* to try infecting himself with parasitic worms in an attempt to treat his IBS, and the brave and plucky individuals w ...more

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Mar 14, 2019 Heather rated it liked it

The author provides good information on several different scenarios of predators, parasite and partners, but the overarching theme was not fully tied together.

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Sep 13, 2011 Tanja Berg rated it really liked it

Shelves: ecology, science

This was a quite interesting and fun read. The title is slightly misleading if it makes you think of only what is on or in our bodies. This book covers more. Interesting chapter titles include "when cows and grass domesticated humans", "we were hunted, which is why all of are afraid some of the time and some of us are afraid all of the time" and "how lice and ticks mad us naked and gave us skin cancer", to name a few.

What I learned that I didn't know before: some creatures and living things are ...more

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May 30, 2016 Elentarri rated it liked it

Shelves: science-environmental, science-biological, health

This was an entertaining and extremely interesting book to read, but somewhat light on the actual science. The main idea covered in this book is that humans are in many cases over-designed because of the loss of species (parasites, predators, symbiotes) that helped to make us who we are today.

This book covers a wide variety of topics that show the inter-relatedness of humans, their evolution and their environment, including parasites, predators and domesticated organisms. The author discusses ( ...more

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Mar 19, 2012 Greg rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Similar to the New Germ theory of disease in many aspects, the book argues not only that there are many diseases caused by either pathogens, or the lack of them, but that many other aspects of humanity, such as colour vision and xenophobia were fixed in us because of predators or pathogens. Often, he makes a good case, but there is a tendency to jump on any crank suggestion and shout "ooh, this could be true, we should sow it is wrong before dismissing it", which might be technically true, but i ...more

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Oct 25, 2012 Eric Rasmussen rated it it was ok

This book had a few "wow" moments, where I had to get up and tell my wife and family about the amazing insights delivered in this book. Those moments are what keep me coming back to nonfiction, what I live for in reading. Unfortunately, the few wow moments (parasites and autoimmune disease) were more than overbalanced by the shakier theories (loss of predators and modern anxiety issues?) and the rehashing of popular health ideas (good gut bacteria and its necessity). While all of that may be exc ...more

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Nov 02, 2011 Harry Lane rated it it was amazing

Dunn's premise is that we have shaped evolution as much as evolution has shaped us, and not always to our advantage. His argument is fairly strong, and his conclusions well worth consideration. But it is something implicit in his presentation that I think is equally important: the degree of specialization in science is a barrier to some types of insights that only come from connecting notions from disparate fields. ...more

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Apr 16, 2016 Philip Taylor rated it liked it

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Fascinating and, at least occasionally, exciting. We appear to need bacteria and certain parasites. However, as with many popular science books, I can't help thinking that I am not getting the full story and that statistics are being suspiciously used to lead me to a certain conclusion. That's what happens when you are ignorant of many things, you get suspicious that someone is deliberately obfuscating the topic for you. To cynical? ...more

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Feb 06, 2016 Trevor Falsey rated it it was amazing

I honestly enjoyed this book. It intrigued me.
It's so funny because I accidentally checked this book out of the library and thought it was something else. I thought I might as well read it.

From the first part I was in love. It helped that the topic was rather interesting but the way the author expressed his opinions and facts made it readable.

Totally recommend. ...more

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Aug 01, 2011 David Brooke rated it really liked it

Very informative and interesting. Sadly it ends not very strong, but at that point I was in full agreement so maybe i was disappointed i wasn't won over. ...more

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Feb 18, 2013 Danielle rated it it was ok

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The point of view was very one-sided. For a much more objective and better written book on the subject, read An Epidemic of Absence by Moises Velasquez-Manoff.

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Dec 09, 2013 Bernie Gourley rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-mind-body

Dunn’s book addresses a host of intriguing questions such as:

-Why are there diseases that disproportionately attack those in the richest parts of the world while being almost non-existent in poor countries?
-Why is obesity at epidemic proportions among modern humans?
-Why—while people have diverse tastes overall—do there seem to be universal preferences for sweet, salty, and fatty foods?
-Why are so many people’s lives wrecked by constant stress and worry?
-Is the Appendix really a vestigial organ ...more

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Mar 30, 2019 Aimee Barnes Pestano rated it really liked it

Biologist and science writer Rob Dunn adeptly challenges today's germaphobic view of health with an in-depth exploration into the life supporting role of both parasites and predators (both of which humankind seems hellbent on eradicating). I was blown away by his detailed reporting into the world of worm tourism for those seeking a cure for Crohn's disease, as well as his argument for bringing back large predatory animals onto the American plains. While it seems like many of the reviewers here w ...more

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Feb 05, 2022 Kym rated it it was amazing

Shelves: health, reference, nonfiction, funny

We all know that we are hosts to millions of organisms that are not us. Rob Dun explains our evolutionary past along with that of our special friends and some not so special. I appreciate that the explanations are easy for a curious person to understand. The information is given along the lines of "this is the evidence, here is what we think that means..." There is plenty of room for open minds here without judging.

The book goes beyond just us, however. It fleshes out our entire ecosystem, not ...more

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May 25, 2018 Onwrd Homestead rated it it was amazing

I was surprised by this book. I agreed to read it upon request by an acquaintance. To me the cover art is deceptive. I thought this was going to be a discourse on microflora and microfauna that inhabit the exteriors and interiors of our bodies. DULL. But wait!! This book is NOT that book. Dunn looks at a handful of connections made by scientists in their wildly extreme and narrow studies that at a glance may seem unrelated, in addition to the detours of the research, their findings and Dunn's ru ...more

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Dec 09, 2021 Diane rated it it was amazing

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I enjoyed this so much I found every excuse to drop bits and pieces from the book into conversation with unsuspecting friends ;)

The author's premise is that modern life, in the name of progress, has nearly ruined the natural world - specifically, the bugs and microorganisms we need to develop our bodies' natural defenses. It's not all dismal (several studies around the world offer hope) but he sugar-coats nothing. Medical research supports every chapter, but the author's style is very accessibl ...more

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Sep 28, 2017 Jeannette rated it really liked it

Thoroughly readable, enjoyable, informative. Ranging from lost cheetahs chasing pronghorns on the American plains and absent predators chasing our fear responses plus lost diseases causing appendicitis this book is a travelogue of disease and past history. The author travels round the world, ducking into laboratories and arcane subjects to tell us all about why we respond and how our bodies respond to lost organisms and an overload of modern ones. It's a delight; everyone should read this and pr ...more

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Oct 07, 2021 David Cuatt rated it really liked it

Author Rob Dunn takes us on another educational (and sometimes mind blowing) trip through the less explored alleys of science. This time the focus is on how different species have affected humans, sometimes recently and sometimes many thousands of years ago. Bacteria and parasitic worms are not always bad guys, in fact we humans may have done damage to ourselves in our rush to sanitize our world and eliminate whatever lifeforms we dub as "bad". Dunn's books never fail to make me look at nature d ...more

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May 28, 2017 Antoinette rated it really liked it

A fascinating exploration of the predators, parasites and partners that shaped our bodies. Dunn, an associate professor of biology at NCSU, has written this book for a lay audience and succeeds at making the material accessible. It is well-researched with 15 pages of notes and an index. I enjoyed reading it and learned so much. I recommend it.

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Robert Dunn is a biologist, writer and professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University.

He has written several books and his science essays have appeared at magazines such as BBC Wildlife Magazine, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic and others. He has become known for efforts to involve the public as citizen scientists.

Dunn's writings h ...more