At Paste he tagged "five great nature books to get your mind off other things." One title on the list:
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong (2016)Read about another entry on the list.
The debut book from Atlantic reporter Ed Yong takes us on a Fantastic Voyage inside the human body, where bacteria and other microorganisms outnumber human cells. We are more than just our DNA, he argues—we are a multi-species ecosystem, a symphony of organisms working in both harmony and conflict with microbiomes in constant flux.
Pulling examples from animals across the globe, 3.7 billion years of evolution, and the latest experiments in microbiology, Yong covers both the basics of symbiosis and the potential promise of a microbiologically focused future.
--Marshal Zeringue
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