Yo contengo multitudes

The human body is home to trillions of microbes that make up a whole world in symbiosis with its environment. These microscopic and multitudinous vital companions not only shape our organs, protect us from diseases, and influence our behavior, but are also key to understanding how life works. In I Contain Crowds, Ed Yong opens our eyes and invites us with his erudition and sense of humor to see ourselves as more than individuals: as interdependent receptacles of the microbiomes that make up all living beings. Thus, we will discover the amazing and invisible science behind the gigantic reefs that corals build, we will learn how certain squid create light shows, and we will see how bacteria can alter our response in the fight against cancer, manipulate our immune system, influence our evolution and even modify our genome.