6Apr/07Off
A disease a day, keeps the doctor away.
Marlene Zuk’s got a book out called Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are that:
…explains how disease influences everything in our lives, from the evolution of two sexes, to our personalities, to how we choose our mate. It also answers questions such as: Why do men die younger than women? Why do we – and lots of other animals – get sexually transmitted diseases? Why do we have sex at all, rather than simply splitting off copies of ourselves like certain geckoes? And how is our obsession with cleanliness making us sicker?