Título: This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
Autor: Kathleen McAuliffe
Sinopse: Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating the behavior of their hosts. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach cats, spiders to transform the patterns of their webs, and fish to draw the attention of birds that then swoop down to feast on them. We humans are hardly immune to their influence. Organisms we pick up from our own pets are strongly suspected of changing our personality traits and contributing to recklessness and impulsivity—even suicide. Germs that cause colds and the flu may alter our behavior even before symptoms become apparent.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society”, de Kathleen McAuliffe, publicado pela editora Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, em 2016 e com 299 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Páginas: 299
Ano: 2016
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Linguagem: pt_BR
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