Contents
Prologue: A Vein Is a River
First sightings of the inner world
- Nature's Criminals
How parasites came to be hated by just about everyone
- Terra Incognita
Swimming through the heart, fighting to the death
inside a caterpillar, and other parasitic adventures
- The Thirty Years' War
How parasites provoke, manipulate, and get intimate
with our immune system
- A Precise Horror
How parasites turn their hosts into castrated slaves,
drink blood, and manage to change the balance of nature
- The Great Step Inward
Four billion years in the reign of Parasite Rex
- Evolution from Within
The peacock's tail, the origin of species, and other battles
against the rules of evolution
- The Two-Legged Host
How Homo sapiens grew up with creatures inside
- How to Live in a Parasitic World
A sick planet, and how the most newly arrived parasite
can be part of a cure
Glossary
Notes
Further Reading and Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
