| Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution Of People And Plagues Contributor(s): Wills, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0201328186 ISBN-13: 9780201328189 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $22.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1997 Annotation: the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge in deadly outbreaks with such disasterous results. It is our knowledge of their secret lives in the moist and teeming rain forests that gives us hope of taming future epidemics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Microbiology |
| Dewey: 614.49 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Lexile Measure: 1340 |
| Series: Helix Book |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.09" W x 9.04" (1.04 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this remarkable account, evolutionary biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a voyage of discovery through the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge with such disastrous results for our species. It is our knowledge of their secret lives, the eons spent quietly passing in and out of myriad other life forms, mutating and coadapting, that gives us hope of taming them. By putting these organisms--from bubonic plague to Ebola--at center-stage, Wills shows how we will eventually master them. |