5/28/2023 0 Comments I contain multitudes book review![]() As I am not a huge fan of scientific history literature I mostly skimmed this but I expect it would be interesting to many people. The history of the study of microbiology is explored in detail. ![]() What is implied (and sometimes said outright) is that biologists have neglected studying it. The book is mostly a long series of interesting investigations into the microbiomes of humans and animals. This is the community of micro-organisms (although it's almost all focused on bacteria with a small amount of emphasis on viruses) that live around us, on us, and inside us. ![]() The subject of this book is the microbiome. I don't know if this is reflective of my loss of naivete, or increase in biological knowledge. Now I return to it as an older man, and find it has lost a lot of its shine. ![]() I have read this book once before, just before I went to university, and I found it immensely enlightening at the time. ![]()
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