The Wild Life of Our Bodies Quotes

“For those of us with the good fortune to live somewhere where infectious diseases are rare or”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“The experimental subjects were brought into the lab. Their blood was taken and then they were shown the neutral slide show and one of the two sets of stressful slide shows. After the slide shows”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Many surveys have been conducted across cultures that aim to understand core attributes of behavior and personality. In one of the largest”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Jason Faulkner”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Sarah Tishkoff—the geneticist at the University of Maryland who discovered the repeated origins of the genes for digesting milk as an adult—has recently studied the spread of G6PD. More than 400 million people in Africa”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Human malaria (Plasmodium falciparum) evolved at about the time the first crops were domesticated.3 When it did”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Meanwhile”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“The question that Charles Darwin posed in this context was why humans abandoned their fur but other mammal species did not. Surely”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Many bird biologists have watched the interaction between the greater honeyguide (Indicator indicator”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“One could imagine”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“If Isbell was right that the particulars of primate vision evolved in response to the presence or absence of venomous snakes”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“When lions”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“The average American and”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“It is already known that people who live in regions where grains were domesticated have extra amylase genes”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Our ancestors”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Eventually”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Crops allowed a few lucky peoples to increase in density beyond what had ever been possible before”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Binford imagined that at least some of our ancestors in the Americas and elsewhere turned to agriculture out of such desperation. He imagined that as populations grew too dense”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Leaf-cutter ant colonies”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Amy Croswell and Nita Salzman”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“The second reason that the germless guinea pigs die is that they end up lacking specific vitamins”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“The guinea pigs”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Just as with guinea pigs”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“For most of the long history of antibiotics”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Jasper Lawrence estimated that about two thirds of his treatments are successful”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“When Debora Wade decided to go to Mexico”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“A second possibility also exists and this possibility (which is not really exclusive of the first) is my own favorite. It has long been known that worms in our guts can produce compounds that suppress the immune system”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“Weinstock thinks that when he introduced worms into patients”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“When treated with worms”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

“A week went by. Two weeks went by. Each patient struggled to decide whether or not he or she was doing better. Four patients dropped out. More time passed. By week seven”
― Rob Dunn, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today