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Category: Microcosm: The Book
Posted on: May 9, 2008 8:36 PM, by Carl Zimmer
From the new issue: "It is a powerful account of the dynamic, complicated and social world we share with this ordinary yet remarkable bug. Evolution and genetics glitter among the pages, as do the lives and experiments of the scientists who have studied them. Microcosm is exciting, original and wholly persuasive of the beauty and utility of looking at the largest of issues from the smallest perspectives."
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I started reading Microcosm in the Barnes-and-Borders-A-Million café, and I was pleasantly startled to see one of my own research topics — network motifs — make an entrance. It's been a great book so far! :-)
Posted by: Blake Stacey | May 10, 2008 2:50 PM
so - when is it coming out in audio?
Posted by: Becca | May 11, 2008 11:24 AM
Hmmm, trackbacks don't seem to be working. Anyway, I wanted to mention that I "hate" you for this book so much I had to blog it....
Posted by: Epicanis | May 12, 2008 12:08 AM