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

Hardcover • 2011 • English

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

By Rob Dunn

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A biologist shows the influence of wild species on our well-being and the world and how nature still clings to us—and always will. We evolved in a wilderness of parasites, mutualists, and pathogens, but we no longer see ourselves as being part of nature and the broader community of life. In the name of progress and clean living, we scrub much of nature off our bodies and try to remove whole kinds of life—parasites, bacteria, mutualists, and predators—to allow ourselves to live free of wild dan...Show more

Life sciences: general issues
Ecological science, the Biosphere
Evolution

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ISBN

9780061806483

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Hardcover

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