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Zimmer133.jpg Carl Zimmer is a science writer. His articles appear in the New York Times and many magazines. He is also the author of six books about science. Send messages to blog/ at/ carlzimmer/ dot/ com

Books by Carl Zimmer

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Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life



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Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition



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"As fine a book as one will find on the subject."-- Scientific American

Revised with a new introduction





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"Superb...a non-stop delight."-- New Scientist





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"Fascinating...thrilling... Zimmer has produced a top-notch work of popular science." --LA Times





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"A fascinating story, which Zimmer unfolds as a tale of high-stakes scientific sleuthing...thanks to marvelous lucid writing." --Booklist





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Why the Loom?

"...among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters, heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad."
--Moby Dick

April 11, 2006

Brains and Bones and Radios

Category: Evolution

Tomorrow I'll be on the radio show Science and Society at 4:20 PM EST. It's my second time on the show. Last time around we talked about the past six million years of hominid evolution (podcast here). This time we're...

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April 10, 2006

The Great Escape

Category: The Parasite Files

At the Loom we believe that the path to wisdom runs through the Land of Gross. We do not show you pictures of worms crawling out of frog noses merely to ruin your lunch. We do not urge you to...

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The Final Adventures of the Blind Locksmith

Category: Evolution

On Thursday I wrote about a new paper reporting the reconstruction of a 450-million year old hormone receptor, and experiments indicating how it evolved into two receptors found in living vertebrates such as ourselves. On Friday I took a look...

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April 7, 2006

The Blind Locksmith Continued: The Mushy Definition of Complexity

Category: Evolution

Yesterday I blogged about a new study in which scientists reconstructed 450 million year old proteins in order to trace the evolution of some receptors for hormones. The paper itself does not comment on the implications these results have for...

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April 6, 2006

The Blind Locksmith

Category: Evolution

Over the last few years, scientists have figured out how to recreate biological molecules that were last seen on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. Until now, scientists have reconstructed ancient proteins to gather clues about life was like...

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Leech quest

Category: Evolution

Mark Siddall, the leech hunter, is on another quest. He's posting updated from his journeys through Australia in search of new leeches. Read them at Blood Lust II....

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Back to Blogging

Category: General

My blog had some serious troubles while I was away for a few days, but I should have everything up and running smoothly today, including comments (aside from those concerining poker and drugs)....

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April 5, 2006

Walking Towards Land

Category: Evolution

Tiktaalik: music to my ears. Tiktaalik is the lilting name of a newly discovered fossil fish with fingers. It lived 380 million years ago in the northern reaches of Canada, back when the northern reaches of Canada were tropical coastal...

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