Plight of the living dead : what the animal kingdom's real-life zombies reveal about nature -- and ourselves
Simon, Matt2018
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Zombieism isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It's real, and it's happening in the word around us, from wasps and worms, to dogs and moose - and even humans. Science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind control. Along the way, he visits a lab where scientists infect ants with zombifying fungi, joins the search for kamikaze crickets in the hills of New Mexico, and travels to Israel to meet the wasp that stings cockroaches in the brain before leading them to their doom.
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Imprint:
New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2018
Collation:
xvii, 237 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.The First Rule of Zombification: You Do Not Want to Be a Zombie -- 2.Nothing Brings the World Together Like Unsolicited Mind Control -- 3.When Life Gets Complicated, Life Gets Zombified -- 4.No Creature Lives in a Vacuum, Not Even a Zombie -- 5.How to Succeed in Parasitism Without Really Dying -- 6.Dawn of the Sexually Undead -- 7.The Great Escape from the Umwelt -- 8.The Great Hacking of the Umwelt -- 9.The Brain-Hacked Mouse That Wore a Funny Hat and Destroyed the Notion of Free Will -- 10.You, the Undead -- 11.End Times.
ISBN:
9780143131410
Dewey class:
591.65
Language:
English
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BRN:
348670
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Animals | 591.65 SIM | Available |