With BPA in baby bottles, mercury in fish, and lead in computer monitors, the world has become a toxic place. But as Emily Monosson demonstrates in her groundbreaking new book, it has always been toxic ...
Emily Monosson is an environmental toxicologist, writer, and consultant. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the editor of Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out.
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Life evolved in a toxic world long before humans began polluting it, and understanding life’s evolutionary response to environmental poisons can help people to fight destructive effects. Emily Monosson, an adjunct professor in the UMass Department of Environmental Conservation and author of the new book Evolution in a Toxic World, says that an understanding of both how rapidly and how slowly life can evolve to fight toxic pollutants is largely missing from toxicology, which is the science of understanding the effects of poisons on life, particularly human life.
