This was an excellent book. It was extremely interesting, had great writing, and did a great job of mixing history, statistics, science, and even dramatic narrative to keep me constantly interested. Because of this, it often did not even feel like I was reading a book about the science and hist...
—Al Gore, Earth in the Balance, 1992 That humanity had grossly underestimated the microbes was no longer, as the world approached the twenty-first century, a matter of doubt. The microbes were winning. The debate centered not on whether Homo sapiens was increasingly challenged by microscopic ...