Even politicians have noticed: President Obama's creation of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, Personalized Medicine Initiative, and Cancer Moonshot were widely covered, but he also launched a National Microbiome Initiative. Not only have premier scientific publications like Science and Nature devoted entire issues to the topic, but more popular press outlets like Scientific American and the Economist have been similarly riveted. But its popularity has exploded overnight. Until just a few years ago, the microbiome was not a topic of mainstream scientific interest.

The key message in this book: Microbes are everywhere, and for good reason theyre vital to our well-being Each. To quote Walt Whitman, as he does in the title of the book: ‘I am large, I contain multitudes.’ In Review: I Contain Multitudes Book Summary. In this astonishing book, Ed Yong takes us on a grand tour through our microbial partners, and introduces us to the scientists on the front lines of discovery. Yong encourages us to reconsider our view of ourselves as individuals, when in fact ‘we are legion, each and every one of us’.

The microbiome is the community of microbes that live within each of our bodies-the bacteria, viruses, and protozoa that exist in a symbiotic relationship with us, at least most of the time. ISBN-13: 9780062368591 Summary Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwina 'microbe’s-eye view. Ed Yong's I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within us and a Grander View of Life is a thoughtful, readable, and even humorous look at the rapidly evolving field of microbiome research. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life Ed Yong, 2016 HarperCollins 368 pp.

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