![]() ![]() I also thought it was brilliant and unusual to include some details of the lab work which involves E. coli and I still learned all sorts of new things about how they function and about how they contribute to science. I already know something about the basics of E. However (and this is the part that makes this a 4 star reviews) the more cutting edge information and all of the fun facts later in the book were very well done. Although I can’t be sure, I felt like other parts of intro weren’t explained well enough for someone without a science background to pick up on the important things. Some of the introductory material was explained very well, with analogies that captured the important information without implying anything inaccurate. Fortunately, the rest of the book, while different from what I expected, was still able to mostly win me over. So when they Microcosm turned out to be less elegantly written, less thoughtful, and clunkier in its transitions from philosophy to real world observations… let’s just say this book and I started out on the wrong foot. I picked up Microcosm in part because the description compares the book to Lives of a Cell, which I loved. It also includes a few philosophical musings and, at the other end of the spectrum, some practical insight into the job of a microbiologist. Acclaimed science writer Carl Zimmer uses the familiar bacterium E. coli lends itself well to discussing almost all of modern microbiology. So much of what we do in the lab today depends on these little bacteria that looking at biology through the lens of E. coli but more than that, it’s a history of modern biology. #MICROCOSM E.COLI AND THE NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE PLUS#It does do it’s own thing quite well though, giving a great introduction to some crucial biology plus a plethora of fun facts. ![]() Review Summary: No matter what the description claims, this lacks the elegant prose and brilliant philosophy in Lives of a Cell. coli and the New Science of Lifeįun Fact: Human gut microbes can reach a population of 100 trillion, out numbering our cells 10 to 1. ![]()
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