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Informationen zum Autor Emily Monosson is a toxicologist and author, a member of the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, and holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In recent years, her focus has turned toward the impact of industrial age chemicals and technology on food and medicine. Her most recent books are Natural Defense: Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Save Our Food and Medicine , Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life Gene by Gene , and Evolution in a Toxic World: How Life Responds to Chemical Threats . She has published in The Scientist , Aeon , LA Times , American Scientist , and Whole Terrain in addition to academic journals and blogs somewhat regularly at toxicevolution.wordpress.com. Klappentext With BPA in baby bottles, mercury in fish, and lead in computer monitors, the world has become a toxic place. But as Emily Monosson demonstrates in her groundbreaking new book, it has always been toxic. When oxygen first developed in Earth's atmosphere, it threatened the very existence of life: now we literally can't live without it. According to Monosson, examining how life adapted to such early threats can teach us a great deal about today's (and tomorrow's) most dangerous contaminants. While the study of evolution has advanced many other fields of science, from biology to medicine, toxicology has yet to embrace this critical approach. In Evolution in a Toxic World , Monosson seeks to change that. Zusammenfassung With BPA in baby bottles! mercury in fish! and lead in computer monitors! the world has become a toxic place. The author traces the development of life's defence systems - the mechanisms that transform! excrete! and stow away potentially harmful chemicals - from over three billion years ago to today.
