Title:
Parasite rex : inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures / Carl Zimmer.
Author:
Zimmer, Carl, 1966-
Genre:
Publication Information:
New York : Free Press, 2011, ©2000.
Call Number:
QL757 .Z56 2011
Abstract:
A look inside the often hidden world of parasites turns the clock back to the beginning of life on Earth to answer key questions about these highly evolved and resilient life forms.
Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon033/00037593.html
Edition:
Free Press trade paperback edition.
ISBN:
9780743200110
9780743213714
9780684856384
9781439564769
Physical Description:
xxii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
General Note:
With a new epilogue -- Cover.
Contents:
Nature's criminals -- Terra incognita -- Thirty Years' War -- Precise horror -- Great step inward -- Evolution from within -- Two-legged host -- How to live in a parasitic world Epilogue.
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