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Animals as the Beating Heart of the Planet: On Joe Roman’s “Eat, Poop, Die”
In Joe Roman’s “Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World,” Ferris Jabr finds a compelling account of important scientific insights.
Ferris Jabr
Ferris Jabr is the author of Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life (Random House, 2024) and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Scientific American. He has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, National Geographic, Wired, Outside, Lapham’s Quarterly, and McSweeney’s, among other publications. His work has been anthologized in several editions of the Best American Science and Nature Writing series and has received the support of a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant, as well as fellowships from UC Berkeley and MIT. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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