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Rob Dunn

Born

Hartland, Michigan, The United States

Website

http://robdunnlab.com/people/rob-dunn/

Genre

Science, Nonfiction

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Robert Dunn is a biologist, writer and professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University.

He has written several books and his science essays have appeared at magazines such as BBC Wildlife Magazine, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic and others. He has become known for efforts to involve the public as citizen scientists.

Dunn's writings have considered the quest to find new superheavy elements, why men are bald, how modern chickens evolved, whether a virus can make a person fat, the beauty of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the biology of insect eggs, the secret lives of cats, the theory of ecological medicine, why the way we think about calories is wrong, and why monkeys (and once upon ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 7,099 ratings · 1,089 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live 4.20 avg rating — 2,531 ratings — published 2018 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today 3.91 avg rating — 1,295 ratings — published 2011 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species 3.97 avg rating — 1,015 ratings — published 2021 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery 3.93 avg rating — 778 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future 3.94 avg rating — 575 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human by Rob Dunn, Mónica Sánchez 3.59 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 2021 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys 4.07 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life 3.74 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	20+ Tips to Guide Bicultural Couples: So You Both Become More Loving and Considerate of Each Other's Culture 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Exit: The thought processes, considerations and potential issues to consider in taking control of your life and making that move abroad you have always wanted, on your terms and at your pace. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Science is full of egos and arrogance, but it is fuller of simple moments of pleasure at the joy of finding some gem of new knowledge, big or small. Such gems can be anyone’s.”
― Rob Dunn, Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys

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“Without their chloroplasts plants would be left like the rest of us, to eat what they find. Instead they hold out their green palms and catch light. If there is magic in the world, surely this is it: the descendants of tiny creatures in leaves, capable of ingesting the sun.”
― Rob Dunn

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“We imagine we will colonize other planets, but we have barely probed this one. We have yet to find a lifeless place on Earth, and there are many places we have yet to check. The surface of Earth is covered in unstudied life. There are new species, unnamed species, living even in your own body. There is much here still. More than we now know, and more than we can yet imagine.”
― Rob Dunn, Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys

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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn

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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich

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Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwald

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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean

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