I, parasite. Kerner P.

The word "parasite" does not cause positive emotions in anyone. Parasites are called those who live at someone else's expense - whether we are talking about people or pathogenic organisms. Nevertheless, the very existence of parasites excites our imagination: we are striking in their ability to adapt to changing external conditions, their complex life cycle, their “modus operandi”, which has no analogues in the animal world.

This book is in the most accessible language , using many examples, tells what science parasitology does. The author introduces the reader with a huge variety of parasitic species, tells what principles their survival strategy is being built, what consequences for the host’s body the “cohabitation” turns with them, how their reproduction occurs and even... What are the advantages that the parasite chosen and uses in in as a feed base.

We should be grateful to the parasites: they took a direct part in the evolution of a person and made an invaluable contribution to the formation of our type, says Pierre Kerner.