The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us about Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society

The Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone's lives. With insight and wit, David Waltner-Toews explores what has been too often ignored and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives -- evolutionary, ecological, and cultural -- The Origin of Feces shows us how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food production and distribution, and global ecosystems. From the primordial ooze to dung beetles, from bug frass, cat scats, and flush toilets to global trade, pandemics, and energy, this is the awesome, troubled, unexpurgated story of feces.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 05/01/2013
ISBN: 9781770411166
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.34w x 0.56d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Silver Medal Winner

Review Citations: Discover 05/01/2013 pg. 24
Quill & Quire 05/01/2013 pg. 26
Publishers Weekly 05/06/2013
Shelf Awareness 05/31/2013