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Book: Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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  1. Carl Zimmer _ Parasite Rex: Inside the

    It is we who are the parasites, and Earth the host
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  2. Carl Zimmer _ Parasite Rex: Inside the

    Some ancient eukaryote swallowed a photosynthesizing bacteria and became a sunlight gathering alga. Millions of years later one of these algae was devoured by a second eukaryote. This new host gutted the alga, casting away its nucleus and its mitochondria, keeping only the chloroplast. That thief of a thief was the ancestor or Plasmodium and Toxoplasma. And this Russian-doll sequence of events explains why you can cure malaria with an antibiotic that kills bacteria: because Plasmodium has a former bacterium inside it doing some vital business.
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  3. Carl Zimmer _ Parasite Rex: Inside the

    Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves."
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