Never home alone from microbes to millipedes, camel crickets, and honeybees, the natural history of where we live

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Summary

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 lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwittingly cultivating an entirely new playground for evolution. These changes are reshaping the organisms that live with us--prompting some to become more dangerous, while undermining those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again.

Contents

Wonder
The hot spring in the basement
Seeing in the dark
Absence as a disease
Bathing in a stream of life
The problem with abundance
The far sighted ecologist
What good is a camel cricket?
The problem with cockroaches is us
Look what the cat dragged in
Gardening the bodies of babies
The flavor of biodiversity.

Additional Information

Subjects	Biology Popular works Natural history Popular works Nature Science Nonfiction History Electronic books.
Publisher	[Place of publication not identified] :Basic Books,2018 Basic Books2018
Edition	First edition.
Contributors	OverDrive, Inc.
Language	English
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web. Format: Adobe EPUB eBook Format: Kindle Book Format: OverDrive Read Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle
Description	1 online resource
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	9781541645752 9781541645745
Other	Classic View