Parasite Rex Inside The Bizarre World Of Natures Most Dangerous Creatures Carl Zimmer by Carl Zimmer 9780743213714, 0743213718 instant download after payment.

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.