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Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. Its an entire world, a colony full of life.
In other words, you contain multitudes.
They sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth.
InI Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong opens our eyes and invites us to marvel at ourselves and other animals in a new light, less as individuals and more as thriving ecosystems.
You'll never think about your mind, body or preferences in the same way again.
'Super-interesting... He just keeps imparting one surprising, fascinating insight after the next.I Contain Multitudesis science journalism at its best' Bill Gates
Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer who reports forThe Atlantic. His blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, is hosted by National Geographic, and his work has also appeared inWired, theNew York Times,Nature, the BBC,New Scientist,Scientific American, theGuardian,The Timesand more. He lives in London.
You can find him on twitter @edyong209 and sign up to his weekly newsletter, The Ed's Up, onhttp://tinyletter.com/edyong209/.
