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In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn takes us to the edge of biology's latest frontier: our own homes. Every house is a wilderness -- from the Egyptian meal moths in our kitchen cupboards and the yeast in a sourdough starter, to the camel crickets living in the basement, to the thousands of species of insects, bacteria, fungi, and plants live literally under our noses. Our reaction, too often, is to sterilise. As we do, we unwittingly culti...

Biologists and laypeople alike have repeatedly claimed victory over life. A thousand years ago we thought we knew almost everything, a hundred years ago, too. But even today, Rob Dunn argues, discoveries we can't yet imagine still await.In a series of vivid portraits of single-minded scientists, Dunn traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in spa...

Als er niemand thuis is en het binnen helemaal stil lijkt, als alles is afgewassen en opgeruimd, zelfs als de vloeren glanzend schoon zijn, dan nog is ons huis een onvoorstelbare wildernis. In Nooit alleen thuis introduceert bioloog Rob Dunn de bijna 200.000 diersoorten die met ons samenleven, van de motten in de klerenkast en de schimmels in de kelder tot de bacteriën op het aanrecht. We zijn nooit alleen thuis.Maar dat wil niet zeggen dat we...

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A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200, 000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactoba...

In the name of progress and clean living, we scrub much of nature off our bodies and try to remove whole kinds of life—parasites, bacteria, mutualists, and predators. To modern humans, nature is the landscape outside. Biologist Rob Dunn contends that while "clean living" has benefited us in some ways, it has also made us sicker in others.We are trapped in bodies that evolved to deal with the dependable presence of hundreds of other species. Th...

The secret history of our most vital organ--the human heart

Biologists and laypeople alike have repeatedly claimed victory over life. A thousand years ago we thought we knew almost everything, a hundred years ago, too. But even today, Rob Dunn argues, discoveries we can't yet imagine still await us. More is unknown than known, whether about our bodies or the bottom of the sea. In a series of vivid portraits of scientists as interesting as the mysteries they chase, Dunn introduces the reader to breakthr...