Never home alone: from microbes to millipedes, camel crickets, and honeybees, the natural history of where we live

✍ Scribed by Dunn, Rob

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 658 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN-13: 9781799417996

✦ Synopsis

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements
Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the Lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwittingly cultivating an entirely new playground for evolution. These changes are reshaping the organisms that live with us—prompting some to become more dangerous, while undermining those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again.
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✦ Subjects

Natural history -- Popular works