The Wild Life Of Our Bodies

Author : Rob Dunn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062092278
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild Life of Our Bodies written by Rob Dunn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 danger. Nature, in this new world, is the landscape outside, a kind of living painting that is pleasant to contemplate but nice to have escaped. The truth, though, according to biologist Rob Dunn, is that while "clean living" has benefited us in some ways, it has also made us sicker in others. We are trapped in bodies that evolved to deal with the dependable presence of hundreds of other species. As Dunn reveals, our modern disconnect from the web of life has resulted in unprecedented effects that immunologists, evolutionary biologists, psychologists, and other scientists are only beginning to understand. Diabetes, autism, allergies, many anxiety disorders, autoimmune diseases, and even tooth, jaw, and vision problems are increasingly plaguing bodies that have been removed from the ecological context in which they existed for millennia. In this eye-opening, thoroughly researched, and well-reasoned book, Dunn considers the crossroads at which we find ourselves. Through the stories of visionaries, Dunn argues that we can create a richer nature, one in which we choose to surround ourselves with species that benefit us, not just those that, despite us, survive.

Author : Rob R. Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Author : Rob Dunn
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780061806469
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild Life of Our Bodies written by Rob Dunn and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 modern humans, nature is the landscape outside. Biologist Rob Dunn contends that while "clean living" has benefited us in some ways, it has also made us sicker in others. We are trapped in bodies that evolved to deal with the dependable presence of hundreds of other species. This disconnect from the web of life has resulted in unprecedented effects that immunologists, evolutionary biologists, psychologists, and other scientists are only beginning to understand. Diabetes, autism, allergies, many anxiety disorders, autoimmune diseases, and even tooth, jaw, and vision problems are increasingly plaguing bodies that have been removed from the ecological context in which they existed for millennia. Dunn considers this crossroads at which we find ourselves. Through the stories of visionaries, Dunn argues that we can create a richer nature, one in which we choose to surround ourselves with species that benefit us, not just those that, despite us, survive.

Author : Molly Gloss
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618131570
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Life written by Molly Gloss and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Bridger Drummond is a free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing woman who pens popular women's adventure stories on the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s. When a little girl gets lost in the woods, Charlotte anxiously joins the search, where she becomes lost and falls into the company of an elusive band of giants.

Author : Keena Roberts
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538745143
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Life written by Keena Roberts and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb. Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy. Most girls Keena's age didn't spend their days changing truck tires, baking their own bread, or running from elephants as they tried to do their schoolwork. They also didn't carve bird whistles from palm nuts or nearly knock themselves unconscious trying to make homemade palm wine. But Keena's parents were famous primatologists who shuttled her and her sister between Philadelphia and Botswana every six months. Dreamer, reader, and adventurer, she was always far more comfortable avoiding lions and hippopotamuses than she was dealing with spoiled middle-school field hockey players. In Keena's funny, tender memoir, Wild Life, Africa bleeds into America and vice versa, each culture amplifying the other. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in.

Author : Rob R. Dunn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061430307
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Living Thing written by Rob R. Dunn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space"--

Author : Rob Buckman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Wildlife written by Rob Buckman and published by . This book was released on 2003-02-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book that just about everyone will find in some measure fascinating, disturbing, engaging, repulsive and funny... Buy it for a friend who worries about 'germs'." -- American Scientist

Author : Robert M. McClung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780208023599
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Wild America written by Robert M. McClung and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of wildlife conservation and environmental politics in America to 1992, and describes various extinct or endangered species.

Author : Rob Dunn
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 154164574X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Home Alone written by Rob Dunn and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwittingly cultivating an entirely new playground for evolution. These changes are reshaping the organisms that live with us -- prompting some to become more dangerous, while undermining those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again.

Author : Emma Marris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 163557496X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Souls written by Emma Marris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize “Thoughtful, insightful, and wise, Wild Souls is a landmark work.”--Ed Yong, author of An Immense World "Fascinating . . . hands-on philosophy, put to test in the real world . . . Marris believes that our idea of wildness--our obsession with purity--is misguided. No animal remains untouched by human hands . . . the science isn't the hard part. The real challenge is the ethics, the act of imagining our appropriate place in that world." --Outside Magazine From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relationships with--and responsibilities toward--the planet's wild animals. Protecting wild animals and preserving the environment are two ideals so seemingly compatible as to be almost inseparable. But in fact, between animal welfare and conservation science there exists a space of underexamined and unresolved tension: wildness itself. When is it right to capture or feed wild animals for the good of their species? How do we balance the rights of introduced species with those already established within an ecosystem? Can hunting be ecological? Are any animals truly wild on a planet that humans have so thoroughly changed? No clear guidelines yet exist to help us resolve such questions. Transporting readers into the field with scientists tackling these profound challenges, Emma Marris tells the affecting and inspiring stories of animals around the globe--from Peruvian monkeys to Australian bilbies, rare Hawai'ian birds to majestic Oregon wolves. And she offers a companionable tour of the philosophical ideas that may steer our search for sustainability and justice in the non-human world. Revealing just how intertwined animal life and human life really are, Wild Souls will change the way we think about nature-and our place within it.