Wild Life of Our Bodies is OUT!
Rob Dunn
Apologies for any duplicate postings, but according to the publisher,
The Wild Life of Our Bodies is now officially out.
Grab a copy if you are interested or check out more wild life here
(www.yourwildlife.org). A description of the book, at least per the
publisher, can be found below. Thanks so much for all of your
support!
Warm regards,
Rob
Rob Dunn's new book, The Wild Life of Our Bodies,
finally arrives in bookstores Monday and is already available online
(e.g., http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Life-Our-Bodies-Predators/dp/006180648X).
The Wild Life of Our Bodies tells the stories of our changing
relationships with other species (be they worms, bacteria or tigers).
In doing so, it considers questions such as what our appendix does,
why we suffer anxiety, why human babies tend to be born at night and
whether tapeworms are good for us, all from an ecological perspective.
E. O. Wilson described the book as “an extraordinary book…. that with
clarity and charm takes the reader into the overlap of medicine,
ecology, and evolutionary biology to reveal an important domain of the
human condition.”
A brief description of the book's contents as
well as an excerpt can be found in The Scientist
(http://the-scientist.com/2011/05/30/the-gravity-of-life/). Or see
more writing and an RSS feed at... http://www.robrdunn.com/.
Rob will be doing the first talk about the book at the NC Museum
of Natural Sciences as part of a bigger event that goes from 5:30 until
10 PM on June 30th.
Rob R. Dunn
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
North Carolina State University
Rob_...@ncsu.edu