This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

by Kathleen McAuliffe

Book Overview

A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures--including humans--think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can only live inside another animal, and as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host's behavior. Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between predator and prey. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544192222
• ISBN13: 9780544192225
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"