A Planet of Viruses
University of Chicago Press, 2011.
A brief summary of A Planet of Viruses
A collection of essays about how viruses, the smallest living thing known to scientists, helped give rise to life on Earth while simultaneously threatening the very existence of people, plants, and other organisms—and what we can expect from these mysterious agents in the future.
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Who should read A Planet of Viruses
Readers of pop science • virologists • government health officials • biology students • parents of immunocompromised children • anyone worried about the next big virus
About the author of A Planet of Viruses
Science writer Carl Zimmer is an adjunct professor at Yale University and has contributed numerous pieces to the New York Times, National Geographic, and Wired. He has written over a dozen books and won the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, as well as spending time as senior editor at Discover magazine, where he began his career reporting on scientific breakthroughs.
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