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Secondo la teoria del caos, il battito d'ali di una farfalla può scatenare un uragano dall'altra parte del pianeta: allo stesso modo il battito delle grigie ali di un pipistrello in una caverna nel Sud della Cina può seminare lutti a Times Square. La pandemia di Covid-19 ha provocato finora oltre sei milioni e mezzo di morti nel mondo. Il Big One, descritto in termini quasi profetici dallo stesso Quammen in Spillover, ha bussa...

National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic—a “luminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time.” (The New York Times).Breathless is a “gripping” (The Atlantic) but “clear-eyed analysis” (Time) of SARs-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as see...

La apasionante crónica de la carrera contrarreloj para descifrar el SARS-CoV-2 y frenar una pandemia devastadora. Finalista del National Book Award «Unacrónica iluminadora y apasionada de la crisis que ha definido nuestro tiempo».—The New York Times   David Quammen, uno de los mejores escritores científicos del mundo y autor de Contagio (Debate, 2020), la obra de referencia sobre enfermedades zoonóticas (las que saltan de animales a humanos), ...

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In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed author David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature and explores the challenge of balancing the needs of both.For more than two decades, award-winning science and nature writer David Quammen has traveled to Earth’s most far-flung and fragile destinations, sending back field notes from places caught in the tension between humans and the wild. This illuminating book featur...

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**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**From the author of the prescient Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicBreathless is the story of the scientific quest to decipher, control and fight Covid-19.Breathless traces SARS-CoV-2's fierce journey through the human population as seen by the scientists who study its origin, ever-changing nature and capacity to kill. It shows how strange viruses emerge as we disrupt wild ecosyst...

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The story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Breathless is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its capacity to kill us. David Quammen expertly shows how strange new viruses emerge from animals into humans as w...

From the author of the powerful, prescient Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicBreathless is the story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Here is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its cap...

From the author of the powerful, prescient Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicBreathless is the story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Here is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its cap...

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Der tödliche Sprung vom Tier zum MenschenLebensbedrohende Infektionskrankheiten wie AIDS, Ebola, Virusgrippen, SARS und aktuell Covid-19 können sich dank der Globalisierung schnell über große Räume verbreiten und Epidemien oder gar Pandemien auslösen. Ihnen ist eines gemeinsam: Die Erreger sprangen vom Tier auf den Menschen über - der sogenannte Spillover. In einem ebenso spannend erzählten wie beunruhigenden Buch schildert der preisgekrönte W...

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In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, "our greatest living chronicler of the natural world" (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology affect our understanding of evolution and life's history. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field—th...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Our understanding of the `tree of life', with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed.

David Quammen explores the relationship between humans and the natural world in a collection of articles selected from his popular magazine column.

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The implications of recent developments in molecular biology such as CRISPR, as they are set to play out across thinking on human genetics, human health and understanding of our own nature, are considered here from the starting point that the prevalent metaphor of the tree of life no longer holds up.