Full name: The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

Author: David Quammen Year: 2015 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393350845 0393350843

The real story of AIDS - how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people - is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread. Excerpted and adapted from the book , with a new introduction by the author, Quammen's hair-raising investigation tracks the virus from chimp populations in the jungles of southeastern Cameroon to laboratories across the globe, as he unravels the mysteries of when, where, and under what circumstances such a consequential "spillover" can happen. An audacious search for answers amid more than a century of data, tells the haunting tale of one of the most devastating pandemics of our time. Similar books: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Spillover by David Quammen Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman Einstein and the Quantum by A. Douglas Stone The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil Universe by Martin Rees The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy Theoretical Physics by Georg Joos Murmurs of Earth by Carl Sagan Understanding the Universe by Don Lincoln Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane The Ocean World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau Every Day On Earth by Steve Murrie