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Brierley, Corale L. "Microbiological Mining." Scientific American, August 1982, p. 44. The role of bacteria in leaching metals from low-grade ore.

Burnet, Macfarlane. Natural History of Infectious Diseases. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1962.

Cairns-Smith, A. G. "The First Organisms." Scientific American, June 1985, p. 90. A theory that the very first systems able to evolve through natural selection may have been crystals of clay.

De Duve, Christian. Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative. Basic Books, New York, 1995. The origin and evolution of life and cells.

Dixon, Bernard. Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World. W.H. Freeman, New York, 1994. A popular explanation of the microbial world.

Ewald, Paul W. "The Evolution of Virulence." Scientific American, April 1993, p. 56. Why some pathogens become extremely virulent and others cause only minor infections.

Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1994. An important popular exposition of how emerging diseases are likely to affect human health.

Ourisson, Guy, Pierre Albrecht, and Michel Rohmer. "The Microbial Origin of Fossil Fuels." Scientific American, August 1984, p. 44. Chemical analysis of the most varied organic sediments, including coal and petroleum, reveals a surprising commonality: All derive much of their organic matter from once unknown microbial lipids.

Postgate, J. R. Microbes and Man, 2d ed. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, UK, 1986. An introduction to microbiology.

Prescott, Lansing M., John P. Harley, and Donald A. Klein. Microbiology, 3d ed. Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque (IA), 1996.

Rosebury, Theodore. Life on Man. Viking Press, New York, 1969.

Scientific American, October 1994. A special issue on the origin, distribution, and evolution of life.

Zinnser, Hans. Rats, Lice and History. Little, Brown Co., Boston, 1934. A classic exposition on the role of infectious disease in human history.

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