Category: Recommendations

Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin is another fantastic illustration of the intersection between people and the rest of the animal kingdom. In high school, the documentary version of this thesis blew my mind, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in evolution, particularly evolutionary anatomy.

Here’s an article of a physician critiquing Zoobiquity as an oversimplification. I’m including this because although I thought this book was great and accurate, I know I’m not a research expert in this field. Besides it’s always good to have some friendly debates.

 

Greek, Ray. “Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing.” Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI vol. 2,4 559–563. 1 Oct. 2012, doi:10.3390/ani2040559

Here are a few citations if anyone’s interested in reading up on the microbiome more:

1. Cabana, F., Clayton, J.B., Nekaris, K.A.I. et al. Nutrient-based diet modifications impact on the gut microbiome of the Javan slow loris (Nycticebus javanicus). Sci Rep 9, 4078 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41598-019-40911-0
2. Amato, K.R., Yeoman, C.J., Cerda, G. et al. Variable responses of human and non-human primate gut microbiomes to a Western diet. Microbiome 3, 53 (2015) doi:10.1186/s40168-015-0120-7
3. Schmidt, Elliott, et al. “Effects of the Captive and Wild Environment on Diversity of the Gut Microbiome of Deer Mice (Peromyscus Maniculatus).” The ISME Journal, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 21 Jan. 2019, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30664674.
4. Clayton, Jonathan, et al. “Captivity Humanizes the Primate Microbiome.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2016, 113 (37) 10376-10381; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1521835113
5. Lane, Kelly E., et al. “The Anthropogenic Environment Lessens the Intensity and Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Parasites in Balinese Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca Fascicularis).”Primates, vol. 52, no. 2, 2011, pp. 117-28. ProQuest, http://proxy.library.nd.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/859327259?accountid=12874, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-010-0230-6.

Here’s a piece of the research I alluded to in my “Opinions” section. Feel free to snoop!

Next by Michael Crichton features multiple fictional story lines relating to modern science and medicine. Although the rest of the book is great, I’m adding it to this list because of one story line about a chimpanzee-human hybrid child. It’s a realistic and tragic illustration of how people today view themselves so separately from even our closest relatives, and even with hate.

This is one of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s most popular publications. Although very dense, it successfully describes people’s understanding of life on this Earth. It could stand as a good supplement to the genetic processes described in Zoobiquity.