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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
kristienhens's review against another edition
5.0
I love Nicholas Money's writing. It's very dry, but often also funny. I learned a lot from this little book. I think Lynn Margulis deserves to be mentioned, though.
nmartinnl's review against another edition
3.0
Takeaways:
'The average human comprises forty trillion eukaryotic cells and an accompanying microbiome of a hundred trillion bacterias, mostly in the gut, and one quadrillion viruses. We are, in raw cell numbers, more microbe than mammal.' 69
'All biology was microbiology for 2.6 billion years' 84
'The application of the term "species" is even more problematic for viruses than bacteria and we rely on arbitrary measures of genetic novelty when we refer to different kinds of bacteriophage.' 88
'The average human comprises forty trillion eukaryotic cells and an accompanying microbiome of a hundred trillion bacterias, mostly in the gut, and one quadrillion viruses. We are, in raw cell numbers, more microbe than mammal.' 69
'All biology was microbiology for 2.6 billion years' 84
'The application of the term "species" is even more problematic for viruses than bacteria and we rely on arbitrary measures of genetic novelty when we refer to different kinds of bacteriophage.' 88
clarkness's review against another edition
4.0
For someone with a scientific background, but not a lot of microbiology training, I thought this was a good, reasonably sized overview of the field and some of its major topics. It would definitely be a very dense read for someone with no or little biology training.