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Read This: A Planet of Viruses
There are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 viruses in the ocean. There's more virus DNA in your genes than there is DNA that actually creates proteins. Viruses are everywhere. Ubiquitous. Silently shaping human history, and the evolution of life, itself. With a resume like that, you might imagine that a book about viruses would necessarily have to be thick enough to justify its own zip code. But Carl Zimmer's new primer on the world's smallest life forms, A Planet of Viruses, is slimmer than my MacBook. With chapters that average 8 pages a pop, and beautiful, colored microscope images of viruses fronting each chapter, it's almost like a picture book for grown-ups—a smart, beautiful, and somewhat demented picture book that's likely to give you a case of the willies. In the best way possible....
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