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Rob Dunn is a professor in the department of applied ecology at North Carolina State University and in the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. He is also the author of five books. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Werken van Rob Dunn
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live (2018) 262 exemplaren
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today (2011) 245 exemplaren
Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys (2008) 138 exemplaren
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species (2021) 118 exemplaren
Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future (2017) 83 exemplaren
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As a nurse, I took care of a lot of cardiac babies, including those with Tetralogy of Fallot & the Blalock surgery. I didn't know where that had come from.
After the chapters on the developments in heart surgery, the author tackles the topic of coronary artery disease, including the lack of studies of the stent procedure vs. doing nothing.
The study of birds - and other species - and their maximum lifetime heartbeats was intriguing. Maybe we can't find a fountain of youth after all.… (meer)