Rob DeSalle and Susan L. Perkins
Yale University Press, November 2015
Microbiome research has been on a meteoric rise for several years. And with a steadily improving understanding of the complex web of microbial interactions occurring around and inside us comes an appreciation of humanity’s place in a world run by microscopic organisms. Welcome to the Microbiome, written by entomologist Rob DeSalle and microbial genomicist Susan Perkins, serves as a field guide to this world and cultivates the emerging perspective that humans are merely a minuscule population in a world that is largely microbial.
From the shared evolutionary history of microbes and humans to the modern impact of microbiomes on science and medicine, DeSalle and Perkins bore into the subject from the bottom up. “Our ...
