Also, the last few minutes of our conversation featured some profanity because the book does. Please forgive my hoarse voice, as I was getting over a respiratory infection of my own. He was in New York City recently and we met early in the morning at his hotel near the World Trade Center site, so you might hear some construction sounds in the background. His latest book is titled Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. He also wrote Monster of God about the few animals left that are predators of us. He went on to write the epic Song of Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction. " I and many other Quammen fans first met him through his Natural Acts columns in Outside magazine, which are available in a couple of anthologies. The New York Times correctly called Quammen "not just among our best science writers but among our best writers. Quammen: A single spillover that led to the pandemic, led to the pandemic strain of HIV, was from one chimp into one human in the southeastern corner of Cameroon back as far as 1908. Steve: Welcome to the Scientific American podcast, Science Talk, posted on November 18th, 2012.
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