What will I be reading this month?
This:
The Wild Life of Our Bodies is the second popular book by ant ecologist Rob Dunn. As I gather from the blurb, “Wild Life” is about the immediate human ecosystem and the consequences of modern culture’s attempt to rid ourselves of it. In keeping with digital progress, the book accompanies a citizen-science site, http://www.yourwildlife.org/, where visitors can participate in surveys of belly button microecosystems, backyard ants, and other close-to-home biodiversity projects.
I enjoyed Dunn’s first book, Every Living Thing, so I’m looking forward to delving into this one.
[update: New Scientist’s review]
Looks great! Also seems like it might be a good book for an introductory class in evolutionary medicine.
Looks like it may well be relevant for that sort of class- once my copy arrives, do you want to have a look at it?
I read Every Living Thing on a flight to Costa Rica last summer and loved every page, so I’ll have to check this one out too!
For some reason the Linnaeus chapter sticks in my head as the highlight of the book. But then, I’m a taxonomist.
This looks like a book to recommend to my human anatomy and physiology students — I keep telling them, and my general students, that we are an ecology. Some of them do not like the idea…