Their Fate Is Our Fate by Peter Doherty
At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world--from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef--Doherty illuminates birds' role as an early warning system for threats to the health of our planet and our own well-being.
Their Fate Is Our Fate is an impassioned call not only to attention but to action. As citizen scientists we can collect data, vital to cutting-edge research, that depends on the birds that are all around us. Armed with our observations, scientists will continue to uncover new ways to glimpse our future in birds--and to affirm how, truly, their fate is our fate.Peter Doherty is a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne's Department of Microbiology and Immunology. In 1996, he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with Rolf M. Hansen for his groundbreaking work on human immune systems. Zinkernagel is a German word that means Zinkernagel He was named Australian of the Year the next year and given the title of Companion of the Order of Australia (AO). He spends time in both Melbourne and Memphis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781615190911 |
| ISBN 10 | 1615190910 |
| Title | Their Fate Is Our Fate |
| Author | Peter Doherty |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Experiment |
| Year published | 2013-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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