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<>Breakthrough bioscience and its implications: 3 extraordinary boks take you to the cutting edge of biology, genetics, evolution, and human health
Three remarkable books take you to the cutting edge of biology, genetics, evolution, and human health — explaining the newest science, and revealing its incredible implications! Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today reveals how microbes have shaped our health, genetics, history, culture, politics, religion and ethics… and how they’re shaping our future right now. Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria offers an even closer look at humans’ intimate partnership with bacteria… how they keep you alive, how they can kill you, and how we can all live together happily in peace. Finally, in It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick, Greg Gibson explains today’s explosion in chronic disease through a revolutionary new hypothesis: our genome is out of equilibrium with itself, its environment, and modern culture.
From world-renowned leaders in science and science journalism, including David Clark, Anne Maczulak, and Greg Gibson
Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
Preface: xiii
Chapter 1: Introduction: our debt to disease 1
Chapter 2: Where did our diseases come from? 13
Chapter 3: Transmission, overcrowding, and virulence 33
Chapter 4: Water, sewers, and empires 67
Chapter 5: Meat and vegetables 93
Chapter 6: Pestilence and warfare 115
Chapter 7: Venereal disease and sexual behavior 141
Chapter 8: Religion and tradition: health below or heaven above? 163
Chapter 9: Manpower and slavery 193
Chapter 10: Urbanization and democracy 213
Chapter 11: Emerging diseases and the future 231
Further reading: 257
Index: 261
Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria
Acknowledgments: viii
About the Author: ix
Introduction: 1
Chapter 1: Why the world needs bacteria 7
Chapter 2: Bacteria in history 35
Chapter 3: “Humans defeat germs!”(but not for long) 63
Chapter 4: Bacteria in popular culture 83
Chapter 5: An entire industry from a single cell 99
Chapter 6: The invisible universe 121
Chapter 7: Climate, bacteria, and a barrel of oil 145
Epilogue: How microbiologists grow bacteria 165
Appendix: Resources for learning more about bacteria 173
Index: 197
It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick
Preface: How a genetic culture clash with modern life is making us sick ix
Chapter 1: The adolescent genome 1
Chapter 2: Breast cancer’s broken genes 19
Chapter 3: Not so thrifty diabetes genes 41
Chapter 4: Unhealthy hygiene 65
Chapter 5: Genetic AIDS 85
Chapter 6: Generating depression 99
Chapter 7: The alzheimer’s generation 121
Chapter 8: Genetic normality 135
Endnotes: 151
About the author: 175
Index: 177