Life Lessons from a Parasite: What Tapeworms, Flukes, Lice, and Roundworms Can Teach Us About Humanity’s Most Difficult Problems.

This article is a review of the book "Life Lessons from a Parasite: What Tapeworms, Flukes, Lice, and Roundworms Can Teach Us About Humanity's Most Difficult Problems" by John Janovy Jr. The reviewer finds the book to be underwhelming and struggles to find wisdom in the abilities and life cycles of parasites. The author suggests that studying parasites' biology could have practical applications, such as finding ways to adapt their preservative functions for transporting drugs and vaccines. However, some of the book's lessons are seen as obvious, and attempts to draw parallels between how ideas and parasites spread are considered broad and lacking insight. Overall, the reviewer finds the book to be a letdown. [Extracted from the article]

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