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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

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#1386 of 3,809 books · #127 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize (2017) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2016).

I Contain Multitudes won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize and was a New York Times bestseller. Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you contain multitudes. They sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth. In I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong opens our eyes and invites us to marvel at ourselves and other animals in a new light, less as individuals and more as thriving ecosystems. You'll never think about your mind, body or preferences in the same way again.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781473520189
Topics
MicrobiologyHuman microbiomeSymbiosis in nature

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