Emily Monosson: 3 books
Evolution in a Toxic World
How Life Responds to Chemical Threats
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
With BPA in baby bottles, mercury in fish, and lead in computer monitors, the world has become a toxic place. But as Emily Monosson demonstrates in her groundbreaking new book, it has always been toxic. When oxygen first developed in Earth's atmosphere, it threatened the very existence of life: now...
Unnatural Selection
How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might...
Natural Defense
Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food and Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
For more than a century, we have relied on chemical cures to keep our bodies free from disease and our farms free from bugs and weeds. We rarely consider human and agricultural health together, but both are based on the same ecology, and both are being threatened by organisms that have evolved to...