Download This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society Writen By Kathleen McAuliffe
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
By : Kathleen McAuliffe
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Book Synopsis :
?Engrossing ? [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain.? ?Wall Street Journal ?Fascinating?and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share.? ?Scientific American ? Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating the behavior of their hosts. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach cats, spiders to transform the patterns of their webs, and fish to draw the attention of birds that then swoop down to feast on them. We humans are hardly immune to their influence. Organisms we pick up from our own pets are strongly suspected of changing our personality traits and contributing to recklessness and impulsivity?even suicide. Germs that cause colds and the flu may alter our behavior even before symptoms become apparent. ? Parasites influence our species on the cultural level, too. Drawing on a huge body of research, McAuliffe
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Author : Kathleen McAuliffe
Pages : 304 pages
Publisher : Mariner Books
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ISBN-10 : 0544947258
ISBN-13 : 9780544947252
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