This Is Your Brain On Parasites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Is Your Brain On Parasites write by Kathleen McAuliffe. This book was released on 2016-06-07. This Is Your Brain On Parasites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Engrossing . . . [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain.” —The Wall Street Journal Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating the behavior of their hosts. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach cats, spiders to transform the patterns of their webs, and fish to draw the attention of birds that then swoop down to feast on them. We humans are hardly immune to their influence. Organisms we pick up from our own pets are strongly suspected of changing our personality traits and contributing to recklessness and impulsivity—even suicide. Germs that cause colds and the flu may alter our behavior even before symptoms become apparent. Parasites influence our species on the cultural level, too. Drawing on a huge body of research, McAuliffe argues that our dread of contamination is an evolved defense against parasites. The horror and revulsion we are programmed to feel when we come in contact with people who appear diseased or dirty helped pave the way for civilization, but may also be the basis for major divisions in societies that persist to this day. This Is Your Brain on Parasites is both a journey into cutting-edge science and a revelatory examination of what it means to be human. “If you’ve ever doubted the power of microbes to shape society and offer us a grander view of life, read on and find yourself duly impressed.” —Bookforum “Fascinating—and full of the kind of factoids you can’t wait to share.” —Scientific American “Humorous, inspiring, and macabre, this is infectious reading in the tradition of giants like Robert S. Desowitz and Jared Diamond.” —Michael A. Huffman, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University
This Is Your Brain on Parasites
This Is Your Brain on Parasites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Is Your Brain on Parasites write by Kathleen McAuliffe. This book was released on 2017-04-29. This Is Your Brain on Parasites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how creatures--including humans--act, feel, and think
Parasite Rex
Parasite Rex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parasite Rex write by Carl Zimmer. This book was released on 2001-11-09. Parasite Rex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts' own molecules. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution, where the majority of species are parasites. WELCOME TO EARTH. For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world's most successful and sophisticated organisms. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer deftly balances the scientific and the disgusting as he takes readers on a fantastic voyage. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the fetid parasite haven of southern Sudan, Zimmer graphically brings to life how parasites can change DNA, rewire the brain, make men more distrustful and women more outgoing, and turn hosts into the living dead. This thorough, gracefully written book brings parasites out into the open and uncovers what they can teach us about the most fundamental survival tactics in the universe.
The Mind Parasites
The Mind Parasites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mind Parasites write by Colin Wilson. This book was released on 2013-05-15. The Mind Parasites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archaeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction. They can be fought with one weapon only: the mind, pushed to--and beyond--its limits. Pushed so far that humans can read each other's thoughts, that the moon can be shifted from its orbit by thought alone. Pushed so that man can at last join battle with the loathsome parasites on equal terms.
Parasites
Parasites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parasites write by Rosemary Drisdelle. This book was released on 2010. Parasites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The evolution and life history of parasites, their role in shaping human history, as well as future threats posed by them.
