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Plight of the Living Dead

What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World - and Ourselves

ISBN-13: 9780143131410

Contributor(s): Matt Simon

Subjects: Natural World, Country Life & Pets

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books (usa)

Publication Date: 04-10-2018

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£13.99

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About the book

Zombieism isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It's real, and it's happening in the word around us, from wasps and worms, to dogs and moose - and even humans. In The Plight of the Living Dead, science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind control. Along the way, he visits a lab where scientists infect ants with zombifying fungi, joins the search for kamikaze crickets in the hills of New Mexico, and travels to Israel to meet the wasp that stings cockroaches in the brain before leading them to their doom.

Plight of the Living Dead

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