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**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** ‘Wonderful, mind-broadening… a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you’ll find in science fiction’ The Times Enter a new dimension – the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into previously unfathomable dimensions – the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the threads of scent, waves of electromagnetism and pulses of pressure that surround us. Because in order to understand our world we don’t need to travel to other places; we need to see through other eyes. ‘A stunning achievement – steeped in science but suffused with magic’ Siddhartha Mukherjee, author The Emperor of All Maladies ‘Magnificent – an unbelievably immersive and mind-blowing account of how other animals experience our world’ Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees

Il nostro corpo brulica di decine di trilioni di microbi. È un mondo intero, una colonia piena di vita. In altre parole, conteniamo moltitudini. I nostri partner microscopici costruiscono gli organi, ci proteggono dalle malattie, condizionano il nostro comportamento e ci bombardano con i loro geni. Hanno anche in mano le chiavi per comprendere tutta la vita sulla Terra. In “Contengo moltitudini”, Ed Yong ci aiuta a aprire gli occhi, invitandoci a osservare noi stessi e gli altri animali sotto una nuova luce, meno come individui e più come rigogliosi ecosistemi. Vedremo come i batteri possono modificare la nostra risposta ai farmaci anti-cancro, come calibrano il nostro sistema immunitario, influenzano la nostra evoluzione e persino modificano il nostro corredo genetico. E incontreremo gli scienziati impegnati a manipolare questi organismi microscopici a nostro vantaggio. In un milione di minuscoli modi, “Contengo moltitudini” modificherà radicalmente la maniera in cui pensiamo al mondo naturale, e l’idea che abbiamo di noi stessi.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It’s an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you contain multitudes. They sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth. In I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong opens our eyes and invites us to marvel at ourselves and other animals in a new light, less as individuals and more as thriving ecosystems. You’ll never think about your mind, body or preferences in the same way again. ‘Super-interesting… He just keeps imparting one surprising, fascinating insight after the next. I Contain Multitudes is science journalism at its best’ Bill Gates SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2017