Plight of the living dead : what the animal kingdom's real-life zombies reveal about nature--and ourselves / Matt Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Matt, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parasites.

Predation (Biology).

Parasitism.

Host-parasite relationships.

Genre:

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

xvii, 237 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]

Summary:

Zombification isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It's real, and it's happening all around us, from wasps and crickets to dogs and moose--and even humans. In Plight of the Living Dead, science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre science of real-life mind control. Along the way, he visits a lab littered with the corpses of zombie ants, joins the search for kamikaze crickets in the hills of New Mexico, and travels to Israel to meet the wasp that stings cockroaches in the brain before leading them to their doom. A madcap, brain-bending journey into an exhilarating new frontier of neuroscience, Plight of the Living Dead shows us that nothing Hollywood dreams up can match the horrific zombies that evolution has produced time and time again.

Contents:

The first rule of zombification : you do not want to be a zombie

Nothing brings the world together like unsolicited mind control

When life gets complicated, life gets zombified

No creature lives in a vacuum, not even a zombie

How to succeed in parasitism without really dying

Dawn of the sexually undead

The great escape from the umwelt

The great hacking of the umwelt

The brain-hacked mouse that wore a funny hat and destroyed the notion of free will

You, the undead

End times.

Notes:

Subtitle on cover varies: What real-life zombies reveal about nature--and ourselves.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237).

Other Format:

Online version: Simon, Matt. Plight of the living dead.

ISBN:

9780143131410

0143131419

OCLC:

1030445416

Publisher Number:

99978860777