The Origin of Feces The Origin of Feces

The Origin of Feces

What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society

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Publisher Description

The Origin of Fecestakes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone’s lives. With insight and wit, David Waltner-Toews explores what has been too often ignored and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives — evolutionary, ecological, and cultural — The Origin of Feces shows us how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food production and distribution, and global ecosystems. From the primordial ooze to dung beetles, from bug frass, cat scats, and flush toilets to global trade, pandemics, and energy, this is the awesome, troubled, unexpurgated story of feces.

  • GENRE
    Science & Nature
    RELEASED
    2013
    January 5
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    232
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    ECW Press
    SELLER
    ECW Press Ltd.
    SIZE
    829.5
    KB

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