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Books by Carl Zimmer
"Essential reading"--Publisher's Weekly
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition
"As fine a book as one will find on the subject."-- Scientific American
Revised with a new introduction
"Superb...a non-stop delight."-- New Scientist
"Fascinating...thrilling... Zimmer has produced a top-notch work of popular science." --LA Times
"A fascinating story, which Zimmer unfolds as a tale of high-stakes scientific sleuthing...thanks to marvelous lucid writing." --Booklist
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Swatches from the Loom
- The Wisdom of Parasites
- Eyes Part One: Opening Up the Russian Doll
- Hamilton's Fall
- Old Hands and New Fins
- The Origin of the Ridiculous
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- The Loom Ends. The Loom Lives!
- The News Can Wait
- Almost Ready...
- Some News...
- A Tapeworm Mystery: Which Way Is Up?
- Microcosm in tomorrow's New York Times Book Review
- A Talk With Paul Ehrlich About The State of the World
- Nice and Weird: Dispatches from The Depths of Parasitology
- The Ten-Mile-Wide Bullet
- Reminder: I'm talking tonight in Los Angeles
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Recent Comments
- Harlan on Some News...
- hardindr on Some News...
- Bob O'H on Some News...
- Neerali on A Tapeworm Mystery: Which Way Is Up?
- Michael Balter on Microcosm in tomorrow's New York Times Book Review
- Owlmirror on Of Bacteria and Throw Pillows
- Bishop Pontoppodan on Of Bacteria and Throw Pillows
- themadlolscientist on A Tapeworm Mystery: Which Way Is Up?
- Pteryxx on Nice and Weird: Dispatches from The Depths of Parasitology
- Pteryxx on Of Bacteria and Throw Pillows
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"...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."
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