Comments on: Book review – Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World – and Ourselves/2019/02/01/book-review-plight-of-the-living-dead-what-real-life-zombies-reveal-about-our-world-and-ourselves/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:39:46 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Parasites: The Inside Story | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/02/01/book-review-plight-of-the-living-dead-what-real-life-zombies-reveal-about-our-world-and-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-81386Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:39:00 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3048#comment-81386[…] This is very reminiscent of, but not to be confused with, the zombie ants that climb to a high point, clamp down, and die after infection with Ophiocordyceps […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Guests of Ants: How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/02/01/book-review-plight-of-the-living-dead-what-real-life-zombies-reveal-about-our-world-and-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-67351Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:41:00 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3048#comment-67351[…] guests? Beyond two chapters on the really small (bacteria, internal parasites, and fungi such as crowd-pleaser Ophiocordyceps) and the really large (vertebrates including birds, lizards, and amphibians), most myrmecophiles […]

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]]>By: Book review – Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/02/01/book-review-plight-of-the-living-dead-what-real-life-zombies-reveal-about-our-world-and-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-40626Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:48:13 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3048#comment-40626[…] story of predatory wasps that turn cockroaches into zombified hosts for their offspring makes for engaging popular science. Catania’s contribution is to figure out the exact sequence of events by which the wasp […]

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]]>By: Book—Plight of the Living Dead | frog on a wire/2019/02/01/book-review-plight-of-the-living-dead-what-real-life-zombies-reveal-about-our-world-and-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-16627Mon, 04 Jan 2021 12:59:20 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3048#comment-16627[…] Book review – Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World – and… […]

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]]>By: Book review – Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/02/01/book-review-plight-of-the-living-dead-what-real-life-zombies-reveal-about-our-world-and-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-13760Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:19:08 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3048#comment-13760[…] sending Vikings into a fit of rage) and humongous fungus to the delights of fairy rings or zombification by Ophiocordyceps species. Or what to make of the fungus that goes by the common name of “shit on a stick”? […]

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]]>By: Book review – Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/02/01/book-review-plight-of-the-living-dead-what-real-life-zombies-reveal-about-our-world-and-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-13362Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:09:43 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3048#comment-13362[…] testing unit, he draws parallels to Ophiocordyceps fungi, popularly known as zombie fungi, that take control of insect minds. Though he acknowledges that the powerful and transformative hallucinations induced by […]

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]]>By: Book review – Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/02/01/book-review-plight-of-the-living-dead-what-real-life-zombies-reveal-about-our-world-and-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-6480Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:23:11 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3048#comment-6480[…] to the delights of fairy rings or zombification by Ophiocordyceps species (see also my review of Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World – and Ourselves). Or what to make of the fungus that goes by the common name of “shit on a stick”? […]

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]]>By: Book review – Virusphere: From Common Colds to Ebola Epidemics: Why We Need the Viruses that Plague Us | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/02/01/book-review-plight-of-the-living-dead-what-real-life-zombies-reveal-about-our-world-and-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-3985Mon, 13 May 2019 08:57:01 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3048#comment-3985[…] Matt Simon, that of a wasp injecting eggs into the living tissue of a caterpillar (see my review of Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World – and Ourselves), Ryan adds the observation that there is a third partner involved. To turn the caterpillar into a […]

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