The Wild Life of Our Bodies
Subtitle: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
By: Rob Dunn
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780061806483
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Human ecology; Human body; Microbiology; Human evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
pagenum: ix; label: Part I: Who We All Used to Be; label: 1.
title: The Origins of Humans and the Control of Nature
pagenum: 3; label: Part II: Why We Sometimes Need Worms and Whether or Not You Should Rewild Your Gut; label: 2.
title: When Good Bodies Go Bad (and Why)
pagenum: 17; label: 3.
title: The Pronghorn Principle and What Our Guts Flee
pagenum: 30; label: 4.
title: The Dirty Realities of What to Do When You are Sick and Missing Your Worms
pagenum: 45; label: Part III: What Your Appendix Does and How It Has Changed; label: 5.
title: Several Things the Gut Knows and the Brain Ignores
pagenum: 61; label: 6.
title: I Need My Appendix (and So Do My Bacteria)
pagenum: 91; label: Part IV: How We Tried to Tame Cows (and Crops) but Instead They Tamed Us, and Why It Made Some of Us Fat; label: 7.
title: When Cows and Grass Domesticated Humans
pagenum: 111; label: 8.
title: So Who Cares If Your Ancestors Sucked Milk from Aurochsen?
pagenum: 130; label: Part V: how Predators Left Us Scared, Pathos-ridden, and Covered in Goose Bumps; label: 9.
title: We Were Hunted, Which Is Why All of Us Are Afraid Some of the Time and Some of Us Are Afraid All of the Time
pagenum: 143; label: 10.
title: From Flight to Fight
pagenum: 155; label: 11.
title: Vermeij's Law of Evolutionary Consequences and How Snakes Make the World
pagenum: 164; label: 12.
title: Choosing Who Lives
pagenum: 181; label: Part VI: The Pathogens That Left Us Hairless and Xenophobic; label: 13.
title: How Lice and Ticks (and Their Pathogens) Made Us Naked and Gave Us Skin Cancer
pagenum: 203; label: 14.
title: How the Pathogens That Made Us Naked Also Made Us Xenophobic, Collectivist, and Disgusted
pagenum: 217; label: Part VII: The Future of Human Nature; label: 15.
title: The Reluctant Revolutionary of Hope
pagenum: 233; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 261; label: Notes
pagenum: 263; label: Index
pagenum: 279