The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us about Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
“David Waltner-Toews picks up the thread with his impassioned treatise on the long, strange, even transcendent afterlife of poop in The Origin of Feces, a book whose cover is guaranteed to make you few friends at the coffee shop.” —Peter Brannan,slate.com“More than just a “bathroom read”, this book offers delightful revelations of the history, evolution, and effects our bowel movements have on our world.” —Publisher's Weekly“whether it's a gag gift, a toilet-side alternative to Sudoku or just some light, easily digestible po(o)p-sci fare,The Origin of Fecesis sure to be a fun and pungent read.” —Bookish“an informative book.” —Tom Kenned,Science Spin“informative and entertaining.” —Alex Good,Quill and Quire“Until you read this, you really won’t know sh*t.”—Publisher's Weekly“This is a rare book in that it offers something for everyone on your Christmas book list: the epidemiologist, the economist, the microbiologist, the anthropologist, sociologist and historian. The classicist will appreciate the numerous knowledgeable references to Roman, Greek and Babylonian culture and mythology, the literary scholar the etymologies and derivations, as well as the quotations from Blake.” —Tim Sly,Literary Review of Canada“[A]stonishingly readable and interesting.” —Svenska Dagbladet