New Releases by Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer is the author of Virüs gezegeni (2012), Science Ink (2011), More Brain Cuttings (2011), Va rūḥ jism rā āfarı̄d (2011), Microcosm (2009).

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Science Ink

release date: Nov 01, 2011
Science Ink
Body art meets popular science in this elegant, mind-blowing collection, written by renowned science writer Carl Zimmer. This fascinating book showcases hundreds of eye-catching tattoos that pay tribute to various scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology and neuroscience to mathematics and astrophysics, and reveals the stories of the individuals who chose to inscribe their obsessions in their skin. Best of all, each tattoo provides a leaping-off point for bestselling essayist and lecturer Zimmer to reflect on the science in question, whether its the importance of an image of Darwins finches or the significance of the uranium atom inked into the chest of a young radiologist.

More Brain Cuttings

release date: Jan 01, 2011

Va rūḥ jism rā āfarı̄d

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Va rūḥ jism rā āfarı̄d
Hjernet har skabt kroppen. Men hvordan har det udviklet sig og kunne ændre på verden

Microcosm

release date: Jul 14, 2009
Microcosm
A Best Book of the YearSeed Magazine • Granta Magazine • The Plain-DealerIn this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces E. coli''s pivotal role in the history of biology, from the discovery of DNA to the latest advances in biotechnology. He reveals the many surprising and alarming parallels between E. coli''s life and our own. And he describes how E. coli changes in real time, revealing billions of years of history encoded within its genome. E. coli is also the most engineered species on Earth, and as scientists retool this microbe to produce life-saving drugs and clean fuel, they are discovering just how far the definition of life can be stretched.

Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins

release date: Feb 06, 2007
Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
From the savannas of Africa to modern-day labs for biomechanical analysis and molecular genetics, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins reveals how anthropologists are furiously redrawing the human family tree. Their discoveries have spawned a host of new questions: Should chimpanzees be included as a human species? Was it the physical difficulty of human childbirth that encouraged the development of social groups in early human species? Did humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Why did humans supplant Neanderthals in the end? In answering such questions, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins sheds new light on one of the most important questions of all: What makes us human?

Woher kommen wir?

release date: Sep 21, 2006
Woher kommen wir?
Der preisgekrönte Wissenschaftsautor Carl Zimmer nimmt uns in diesem Buch mit auf eine faszinierende Reise in die Vergangenheit - und in die Zukunft. Wir erfahren, woher die Menschen kommen und wohin sie vielleicht gehen. Der sehr verständlich geschriebene Band schlägt dabei einen weiten Bogen. Von prähistorischen Fossilien, die in der Sahara ausgegraben wurden, bis zu den DNA-Analyserobotern am National Human Genome Research Institute in einem Vorort von Maryland - es gelingt Zimmer, die verschiedenen Facetten unserer Herkunft und Entwicklung zu einer ebenso unterhaltsamen wie lehrreichen Geschichte zu verbinden, die für Laien und Fachleute gleichermaßen ihren Reiz hat. Fast täglich erweitern neue Entdeckungen unsere Kenntnisse über die Evolution des Menschen und unsere Ursprünge. So gaben Wissenschaftler im Jahre 2004 nach Forschungsarbeiten auf der indonesischen Insel Flores bekannt, dass sie die Überreste sehr kleiner, bisher unbekannter Hominiden gefunden hatten. Diese Menschenvorfahren waren nur einen knappen Meter groß, hatten aber ein ähnlich strukturiertes (wenn auch kleineres) Gehirn als wir. Die kleinen Fossilien - sie wurden auf den Namen Homo floresiensis getauft (und in den Medien auch als "Hobbits" bezeichnet) - sind zum Gegenstand einer hitzigen Diskussion unter den Evolutionsforschern geworden. Die Reise, die wir unter der sachkundigen Führung von Carl Zimmer unternehmen, beginnt vor 65 Millionen Jahren mit den ersten Primaten und endet in der Gegenwart mit dem Übergang zu einer neuen Evolutionsphase. Unterwegs zeichnet der Autor noch einmal die wichtigsten Schritte unserer Evolution nach, darunter jene Phasen, in denen Hominiden zum ersten Mal aufrecht gingen, Werkzeuge herstellten und ein Bewusstsein entwickelten. Dabei gelangt Zimmer zu einer faszinierenden Erkenntnis: Fossilien sind heute nicht mehr die einzige Quelle für Informationen über unsere Entstehungsgeschichte. Wir können den Weg, auf dem wir gekommen sind, auch in unserer eigenen DNA teilweise zurückverfolgen! [Format: 21 x 17,8 cm]

Jak se duše stala tělem

release date: Jan 01, 2006

Hvor stammer vi fra?

release date: Jan 01, 2006
Hvor stammer vi fra?
Nye opdagelser er ved at ændre opfattelsen af menneskets evolution. I 2004 fandt man fx på den indonesiske ø Flores fossilerne af en helt ny mennesketype på blot 90 cm. Den nye art Homo floresiensis, er nu midtpunkt for en af de vigtigste debatter om vores egen arts oprindelse

Livro de ouro da evolução

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Livro de ouro da evolução
''O Livro de Ouro da Evolução'' apresenta uma visão da evolução, na qual Carl Zimmer explora as implicações da teoria de Darwin. O livro começa contando toda a trajetória de Darwin e de sua teoria. Depois, continua através das outras descobertas, que ajudaram a dar forma e a desenvolver a teoria evolucionista.

Parasitus Rex.

release date: Jan 01, 2003

O livro de ouro da evolução

release date: Jan 01, 2003
O livro de ouro da evolução
Apresenta a trajetória da idéia sobre a evolução, desde que começou a se formar na mente de Darwin até os dias atuais, quando contribui decisivamente para explicar variados fenômenos naturais, para confirmar o quanto o ser humano é insensato ao destruir o meio ambiente, para aperfeiçoar os computadores e até para combater doenças.

Parasitus Rex

release date: Jan 01, 2001

Parasite Rex

release date: Sep 21, 2000
Parasite Rex
Combining the literary sensibility of David Quammen with the scientific rigor of Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Zimmer reveals the power, danger, and beauty of the surprising creatures who dominate the earth: parasites. For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and the darkest shadows of science. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer takes readers on a fantastic voyage into the secret universe of these extraordinary life-forms—which are not only among the most highly evolved on Earth, but make up the majority of life’s diversity. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the parasite-riddled war zone of southern Sudan, Zimmer introduces an array of amazing creatures that invade their hosts, prey on them from within, and control their behavior. He also vividly describes parasites that can change DNA, rewire the brain, make men more distrustful and women more outgoing, and turn hosts into the living dead. This comprehensive, gracefully written book brings parasites out into the open and uncovers what they can teach us all about the most fundamental survival tactics in the universe—the laws of Parasite Rex.

À Beira d’Água

release date: Jan 01, 1999
À Beira d’Água
Numa combinação entre paleontologia, zoologia, anatomia comparada, genética, embriologia e evolução, o autor nos leva a conhecer mais de perto duas transições evolucionárias; a saída dos animais da água e a reversão de um ramo desses organismos de volta à água. A complexidade do ato de nadar, de ouvir dentro d''água ou da estrutura de pés e mãos, entre outros temas, são abordados de forma simples e direta, o que faz deste volume uma obra imprescindível para os estudiosos - ou simplesmente para os amantes - das teorias sobre a evolução das espécies.

Die Quelle des Lebens

release date: Jan 01, 1998

Cumaceans of the American Atlantic Boreal Coast Region (Crustacea, Peracarida)

Der Vogelflug. Seine Anatomisch-physiologischen und Physikalisch-aerodynamischen Grundlagen ... Mit 127 Abbildungen

Nordisches Plankton Zoologischer Teil III

Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910 - 1913

Abschiedsworte gesprochen am Sarge des Oberförsters Richard Koch

Anleitung zur Beobachtung der vogelwelt

Schizopoden des Hamburger Naturhistorischen (Zoologischen) Museums

Die Schizopoden der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition, 1901-1903

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