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Cargando... I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (2016)por Ed Yong
   Books Read in 2022 (112) Books Read in 2023 (2,345) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |  А новости эти таковы, что без своих особых бактерий комар — разносчик лихорадки Денге никогда не разовьется в опасную взрослую особь, а микрофлора кишечника у людей с ожирением и нормальным телосложением различается. Что здесь причина, а что следствие, как всем этим управлять и каковы глобальные последствия миллиметровых изменений — вопросы, на которые уже сейчас появляются ответы. В том числе практического характера: большого толка от приема бутылочек с «культурами» нет — этот «поезд» проследует сквозь вас без остановок. (  ) Den85 | Jan 3, 2024 | My expectations were very high for this book, and the results are mixed. It’s a real rollercoaster - some of the research on amazing things bacteria can do and the ways it affects the world are incredible, but they’re intermixed with sections about how this bacteria or that bacteria could help someone lose five pounds (which the book assumes must be “healthy”) or cause them to gain 5 pounds (which the book assumes must be “unhealthy”). I was hoping for something more critical of assumptions like that, but maybe this was more marketable. The most interesting thing I learned about microbes from this book did have to do with animal diets, however. A lot of the food that animals consume (particularly plants) is not digested by the animal themselves, but by the bacteria that live inside them, which then produce smaller molecules that can be digested by the animal. In some cases (multi-chamber-stomached herbivores like cows) the animals even digest the bacteria themselves as their “food” after feeding them grass or hay. This is especially true of mammalian breast milk, which contains very large sugar molecules which can’t be digested by babies at all. The milk feeds the microbes, and the microbes feed the babies. Incredible stuff. ( ) norabelle414 | Sep 7, 2023 | ) markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 | ) KallieGrace | Jun 8, 2023 |
 Ed Yong is a talented British science writer, a staff writer for The Atlantic and the author of a wonderful blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, hosted by National Geographic. “I Contain Multitudes,” his first book, covers a huge amount of microscopic territory in clear, strong, often epigrammatic prose. Yong has advanced degrees in biology, and he is remarkably well informed; he includes descriptions of many studies that are still unpublished, and even a few original ideas for new experiments. He is infectiously enthusiastic about microbes, and he describes them with verve. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
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HTML: Yo contengo multitudes ya es considerado una obra fundamental de ciencia divulgativa -como lo fue en su momento El gen egosta-. Un libro fascinante y rompedor que cambiar de mil millones de micromaneras nuestra percepcin del mundo natural y el espacio que en l ocupamos. El cuerpo humano alberga billones de microbios que conforman todo un mundo en simbiosis con su entorno. Estos microscpicos y multitudinarios compaeros vitales no solo moldean nuestros rganos, nos protegen de enfermedades, e influyen en nuestro comportamiento, sino que resultan clave a la hora de entender el funcionamiento de la vida. En Yo contengo multitudes Ed Yong nos abre los ojos y nos invita con su erudicin y sentido del humor a mirarnos como algo ms que individuos: como receptculos interdependientes de los microbiomas que conforman todos los seres vivos. As, descubriremos la asombrosa e invisible ciencia detrs de los gigantescos arrecifes que construyen los corales, aprenderemos cmo ciertos calamares crean juegos de luces, y veremos el modo en que las bacterias pueden alterar nuestra respuesta en la lucha contra el cncer, manipular nuestro sistema inmunolgico, influir en nuestra evolucin e incluso modificar nuestro genoma. Bill Gates opina sobre este libro... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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