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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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Author: Carl Zimmer

This colorful natural history surveys the world of the often reviled parasite and its place in scien...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0684856387
ISBN-13: 9780684856384
Sep 2000
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
298 pages
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Language: English
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This colorful natural history surveys the world of the often reviled parasite and its place in science and popular culture. As this accessible tour provides historical and scientific context, it describes the obvious destructiveness of the organisms while offering numerous examples in nature of ecologically beneficial parasitic relationships.

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Length:298 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:20.0 oz

Publisher's Notes
First Line: "In the beginning there was fever. There was bloody urine. There were long quivering strings of flesh that spooled out of the skin. There was a sleepy death in the wake of biting flies."

Industry Reviews
"One of this year's most fascinating works of popular science is also its most disgusting."
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"With [this book], Zimmer proves himself as fine a science essayist as we have....The importance of [his] book lies not only in its accessible presentation of the new science of evolutionary parasitology but in its thoughtful treatment of the global strategies and policies that scientists, health workers and governments will have to consider in order to manage parasites in the future...."
New York Times Book Review - Kevin Padian (10/22/2000)


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