This book title, This Is Your Brain on Parasites (How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society), ISBN: 9780544947252, by Kathleen McAuliffe, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 16, 2017) is available in paperback. “If you’ve ever doubted the power of microbes to shape society and offer us a grander view of life, read on and find yourself duly impressed.” -Heather Havrilesky, Bookforum This Is Your Brain on Parasites is both a journey into cutting-edge science and a revelatory examination of what it means to be human. The horror and revulsion we are programmed to feel when we come in contact with people who appear diseased or dirty helped pave the way for civilization, but may also be the basis for major divisions in societies that persist to this day. Drawing on a huge body of research, McAuliffe argues that our dread of contamination is an evolved defense against parasites. Parasites influence our species on the cultural level, too. Germs that cause colds and the flu may alter our behavior even before symptoms become apparent. Organisms we pick up from our own pets are strongly suspected of changing our personality traits and contributing to recklessness and impulsivity-even suicide. We humans are hardly immune to their influence. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach cats, spiders to transform the patterns of their webs, and fish to draw the attention of birds that then swoop down to feast on them. Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating the behavior of their hosts. “Fascinating-and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share.” - Scientific American “Engrossing … expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain.” - Wall Street Journal Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Books for Boys Books for Girls Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction Native American Books New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+).BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books.
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