Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into Earth, causing terrible environmental disasters. This story is now widely accepted as the solution to a scientific murder mystery what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? This work reveals the scientific detective work that went into solving this mystery.

Parasites can: rewrite DNA; rewire the brain; genetically engineer viruses as weapons; and turn healthy hosts into the living dead. This book follows researchers as they penetrate the mysteries of these omnipotent creatures who control evolution, ecxosystems, and perhaps the future of mankind.

In this title, Carl Zimmer draws together the entire history of evolution, from Darwin's original insights on the voyage of the Beagle, through the modern synthesis , which combined genetics with natural selection, to the Darwinian medicine and the selfish gene of today.

Most of us might know E coli for its lethal strain that causes food poisoning. This book tells how E coli microbes talk to each other, how studies of their evolution represent the most powerful evidence in support of natural selection, and how they might just explain life on other planets.

How the secrets of the brain were uncovered in 17th century England? Among the revolutions of the seventeenth century was a revolution on the understanding of the brain and mind. It's central figure was a 17th century Englishman called Thomas Willis. This book tells Willis' story against the background of Civil War, regicide and Restoration.