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The Wild Life of Our Bodies - Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today by Dunn, Dr. Rob is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Wild Life of Our Bodies - Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today about?

A biologist shows the influence of wild species on our well-being and the world and how nature still clings to us—and always will. We evolved in a wilderness of parasites, mutualists, and pathogens, but we no longer see ourselves as being part of nature and the broader community of life. In the name of progress and clean living, we scrub much of nature off our bodies and try to remove whole kinds of life—parasites, bacteria, mutualists, and predators—to allow ourselves to live free of wild danger. Nature, in this new world, is the landscape outside, a kind of living painting that is pleasant to contemplate but nice to have escaped. The truth, though, according to biologist Rob Dunn, is that while "clean living" has benefited us in some ways, it has also made us sicker in others. We are trapped in bodies that evolved to deal with the dependable presence of hundreds of other species. As Dunn reveals, our modern disconnect from the web of life has resulted in unprecedented effects that immunologists, evolutionary biologists, psychologists, and other scientists are only beginning to understand. Diabetes, autism, allergies, many anxiety disorders, autoimmune diseases, and even tooth, ja

Who reads The Wild Life of Our Bodies - Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today?

Author

Dunn, Dr. Rob

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061806469

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Medical, Biology

Rating

3.87 / 5 (803 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14