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By: Book review – The Biology of Death: How Dying Shapes Cells, Organisms, & Populations | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:37:29 +0000

[…] between life and non-life. He mentions major causes of death today (with an honourable mention of the mosquito), and what killed us in the past (including a list of some major pandemics). He mentions symptoms […]

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By: Book review – A Planet of Viruses (Third Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:42:29 +0000

[…] A piece on the West Nile Virus shows how viruses can go global, and how insect vectors such as mosquitoes can assist. And then there are the viruses that infect bacteria, bacteriophages, that outnumber us […]

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By: Book review – Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:39:20 +0000

[…] exchange when Christopher Columbus and other explorers brought new epidemics to the Americas, or the scourge of mosquito-borne diseases that later decimated European colonialists overseas. The medieval Little Ice Age and the global […]

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By: Book review – The Inside Out of Flies | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – The Inside Out of Flies | The Inquisitive Biologist — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:52:48 +0000

[…] to corpses, do not endear them to us. Add to that that the order Diptera also hosts mosquitoes, called our deadliest predator by some authors, and you can begin to see why. Entomologist Erica McAlister, the senior curator for Diptera at the […]

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By: Book review – Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their Role in Our Changing World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 20:08:04 +0000

[…] just reviewed The Mosquito, I am continuing the theme of small things running the world. Here is another overlooked insect […]

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By: Book review – Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:21:01 +0000

[…] vector-borne diseases, mosquitoes being their vector. They are incredibly deadly (see my review of The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator), but they are not […]

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By: inquisitivebiologist

inquisitivebiologist — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:11:15 +0000

In reply to smellincoffee.

I do have “The Story Of Shit” on my shelf here, it’s an English translation of a book by the Dutch biologist Midas Dekkers, who is also hilarious.

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By: smellincoffee

smellincoffee — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:06:50 +0000

The title is unforgettably brilliant. Hope you find and enjoy it — I’m halfway through.

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By: inquisitivebiologist

inquisitivebiologist — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 14:45:18 +0000

In reply to smellincoffee.

: D I have not heard of that one, but I’ll look it up!

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By: smellincoffee

smellincoffee — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 22:07:28 +0000

In reply to inquisitivebiologist.

I’m fairly sure I’ll get to this one — I grew up in a stretch of woods between two marshlands, so mosquitos were a chronic menace. By the way, have you ever read “The Origin of Feces”? I’m working on it now, and was amused to see your dung beetles review recently. Our minds are both in the toilet!

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