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Carl Zimmer

출생: July 13, 1966 – New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Carl Zimmer is an American science journalist and columnist focused on evolution, heredity, microbiology, and medicine. He is the author of Parasite Rex, A Planet of Viruses, and She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, and has won multiple science-writing honors while shaping public understanding through books, essays, and journalism.

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Carl Zimmer came to science writing through literature rather than laboratory training. He earned a B.A. in English, magna cum laude, from Yale University in 1987 and joined Discover in 1989 as a researcher and reporter. Over the next decade he moved through associate and senior editorial roles, learning to translate complex biology for general readers while building a body of work that ranged across evolution, parasites, heredity, virology, and the brain. That long apprenticeship in reporting, editing, and explanation set the pattern for his later career as an author and journalist. ((https://carlzimmer.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CARL-ZIMMER-CV-2-15-2026.pdf))

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Nobody actually invented it
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The path from ants to antibiotics is not as roundabout as it may seem
-Experimental Drugs Target Bacteria’s Social Network
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Few people would describe bedbugs as most beautiful or most wonderful
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This process has generated a huge amount of viral DNA in the human genome
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A tumor, as strange as it may sound, is a little society
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In the standard Frankenstein story, a scientist creates an unnatural monster that breaks out of the lab and runs amok
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Tens of thousands of people were sterilized as a result of these laws
-Genetic Screening: Controlling Heredity

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