Acclaimed New York Times science writer Carl Zimmer investigates what current science has to say on the most fundamental of questions: What is life? What does it mean to be alive?
Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society – a force set to shape our future even more radically.
At the beginning of Europe's turbulent seventeenth century, no one knew how the brain worked. By the century's... Læs mere
Used widely in non-majors biology classes, this is the first textbook about evolution intended for the general reader. In clear, non-technical language,... Læs mere
Carl Zimmer tells the story of the theory of evolution from Darwin's journey on the Beagle to the controversies of modern evolutionary theory, the understanding of the lethal resurgence of antibiotic resistant diseases and the wave of species extinctions that face us today.
Celebrated science writer Carl Zimmer’s classic book, updated in a new edition, is an eye-opening look at Covid-19 and the many other viruses that shape our planet and ourselves.
From the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted New York Times science columnist, the hidden biology of the air we breathe, from pollen to viruses such as COVID-19.
From the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted and New York Times science columnist, the biology of the air that we breathe, from pollen to viruses such as COVID-19.
From the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted science columnist for The New York Times, the first book to comprehensively reveal the hidden biology of the air we breathe.