![]() So, get ready to explore their world and forge a grander view of your own existence, evolution, and life itself! The story of evolution is a story of microbes They live on the surface of our skin, inside our bodies, and sometimes even inside our very cells – and are collectively known in science as the human microbiota or microbiome.Įd Yong’s erudite, enlightening and unputdownable debut book I Contain Multitudes – titled after that famous Walt Whitman verse from “Song of Myself” – is a book about them: bacteria, fungi, viruses, and archaea that live inside you. Whatever we do (writing, dreaming, skiing), and wherever we go (to the bathroom, to the zoo, or to the moon), millions of microscopically tiny friends are there to keep us company. It seems that even when we are alone, we are never really alone. ![]() When Orson Welles said “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone,” he was badly mistaken. ![]()
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