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David Quammen (born February 1948) is an award-winning science, nature and travel writer whose work has appeared in publications such as National Geographic, Outside, Harper's, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Book Review; he has also written fiction. He wrote a column called "Natural Acts" for Outside magazine for fifteen years. Quammen lives in Bozeman, Montana. ...more

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I'm just back from a couple of lecture trips, one of which (to Ottawa) involved accepting the Stephen Jay Gould Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution, and doing the Gould Lecture there to an audience of 2,000. The nice thing about lecturing to a big audience, in contrast to a small one, is that when it's 2,000 folks you know that SOMEBODY out there will laugh at the jokes.
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Published on July 17, 2012 07:59 • Tags: ebola, evolution, viruses

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	Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic 4.42 avg rating — 20,489 ratings — published 2012 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction 4.29 avg rating — 8,672 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life 3.98 avg rating — 4,558 ratings — published 2018 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution 3.97 avg rating — 2,701 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind 4.01 avg rating — 2,258 ratings — published 2003 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus 4.20 avg rating — 2,075 ratings — published 2022 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus 4.19 avg rating — 2,039 ratings — published 2014 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature 4.18 avg rating — 1,616 ratings — published 1988 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Natural Acts : A Sidelong View of Science and Nature 4.11 avg rating — 1,343 ratings — published 1985 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest 4.17 avg rating — 1,212 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”
― David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“Make no mistake, they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another. And they are not simply happening to us; they represent the unintended results of things we are doing. They reflect the convergence of two forms of crisis on our planet. The first crisis is ecological, the second is medical.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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“Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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