{"id":142,"date":"2006-05-23T22:39:46","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T04:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/142"},"modified":"2006-05-23T22:39:46","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T04:39:46","slug":"parasite-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/142","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Parasite Rex&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Parasite Rex<\/u> (<a title=\"Parasite Rex, LOC\" href=\"http:\/\/catalog.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&#038;FT=0684856387&#038;CNT=10+records+per+page\">LOC<\/a>, <a title=\"Parasite Rex, Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/074320011X\/sr=8-1\/qid=1148445190\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-0134590-4587900?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">Amazon<\/a>) by Carl Zimmer was a great read. I never really got a good introduction to parasites in my previous studies in biology, so I was greatly enlightened about their vast diversity and importance to life on earth. I was particularly struck by the new view of evolution that one gets when considering the intertwined life-cycles of parasites and their hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, it&#8217;s full of descriptions of processes that&#8217;ll make the worms under your skin crawl, so don&#8217;t bother if you&#8217;re squeamish about that. I have to admit that I (not very squeamish) felt a bit itchy when reading it, at times&#8230; All in good fun, though.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/loom.corante.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/02\/the_wisdom_of_parasites.php\">a parasite story on Zimmer&#8217;s blog<\/a> that gives you a taste of some of the stories in the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parasite Rex (LOC, Amazon) by Carl Zimmer was a great read. I never really got a good introduction to parasites in my previous studies in biology, so I was greatly enlightened about their vast diversity and importance to life on earth. I was particularly struck by the new view of evolution that one gets when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-biology","tag-books","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}