Ed Yong Books
Ed Yong is a British science journalist known for his work in The Atlantic and his focus on microbiology, evolution, and the intersection of science and society. He has received numerous awards for his science writing.
Known for: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
A captivating exploration of the extraordinary sensory worlds of animals, revealing how they perceive the world in ways profoundly different from humans. Ed Yong takes readers on a journey through the...
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
This book explores the hidden world of microbes and their profound influence on all forms of life. Ed Yong reveals how these microscopic organisms shape our bodies, ecosystems, and even our behavior, ...
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The Concept of Umwelt: Discovering Other Worlds
When von Uexküll coined the term *Umwelt*, he was trying to articulate a radical idea: that each living creature inhabits its own perceptual world, framed by what its senses can detect. To a tick, the entire universe may be reduced to three cues—the odor of butyric acid from mammalian skin, the warm...
From An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Diversity of Animal Senses: A Symphony Beyond Human Perception
Every chapter of this journey begins with humility: the human sensorium is not standard but provincial. Many animals live in worlds shaped by senses that we barely comprehend. Mantis shrimps, for instance, perceive colors through a dozen receptor types, yet likely organize those colors differently f...
From An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Microbial World
The microbial world stretches beyond imagination—hidden in our soil, our oceans, our guts, and the very air we breathe. Microbes are everywhere, and they have been here since the dawn of life. For billions of years before humans appeared, bacteria and archaea were already at work transforming the pl...
From I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Microbes and Animals
Animals, from the smallest insect to the largest whale, owe much of their physiology to microbes. Consider the partnership between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and *Vibrio fischeri*. In the squid’s light organ, these bacteria emit a soft glow used to camouflage their host from predators by mimicking m...
From I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
About Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a British science journalist known for his work in The Atlantic and his focus on microbiology, evolution, and the intersection of science and society. He has received numerous awards for his science writing.
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