Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology / Social Science
An exploration of the most common life form on Earth—parasites—and how they provide insight into humanity’s most difficult problems
In this unique piece of pop-science, one of the world’s preeminent experts on parasites reveals their astonishing, disgusting, weird, and fascinating behaviors and how they provide insight into humanity’s most difficult problems.
Squeamishness aside, what can humans learn from the most reviled yet misunderstood animals on Earth: lice, tapeworms, and maggots that can eat a lizard from the inside? And how can these lessons help us negotiate a world characterized by pandemic disease, ethnic hatred, climate change, war, and internet-driven political chaos?
