Bob <Norton360 at aol.com> wrote;

"This theme is expanded on in "The Coming
Plague" [don't remember the author] which is an another readable and exciting
book on the field epidemiologists tracking down such things ..."

the author of _the coming plague_ is laurie garrett, who was (among
other things) the science correspondent for NPR for a number of years.

"Other great books as long as I am revealing my biases are "The Red Queen
,"
[don't remember the author] which is a book about why sex is such a popular
method of reproduction for most organisms. ... "

the author of _the red queen_ is mark ridley, a research scientist
and friend of one of my colleagues.

Deborah Wisti-Peterson email:nyneve at u.washington.edu
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
Visit me on the web: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~nyneve/
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