Carl Zimmer
Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive.
Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times. His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution. His previous book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, won the 2019 National Academies Communication Award. The Guardian named it the best science book of 2018.
Zimmer is a familiar voice on radio programs such as Radiolab and is professor adjunct at Yale University. He is, to his knowledge, the only writer after whom both a species of tapeworm and an asteroid have been named.
Books Carl Zimmer has authored
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Parasite Rex
by Carl Zimmer • November 9, 2001 • Science & Math
IN THIS REISSUED PAPERBACK EDITION WITH A NEW EPILOGUE, CARL ZIMMER REVEALS THE POWER, DANGER, AND BEAUTY OF PARASITES.
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh
by Carl Zimmer • June 4, 2019 • Science & Math
Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass a...
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