Where do viruses, such as Ebola and HIV, come from and why they are so aggressive? This book changed tenets of evolutionary virology, developing the concepts of aggressive symbiosis and plague culling, which explain much of the horror of plague virus
Our human genome is full of viruses similar to HIV-1. These have played an important role in human evolution and still play an important role in human embryology and day-to-day chemistry. Just how important are they to our evolution past and future?
Warwick Cairns, author of About the Size of It and How to Live Dangerously(Pan Macmillan)
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Warwick Cairns was born in 1962 and grew up in Dagenham, in Essex.
He studied English and Psychology at Keele, and then a few years later he took a postgraduate degree in English Literature at Yale under the brilliant but eccentric Professor Harold Bloom.
He spent time drilling wells on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota and travelling in Africa with the explorer Wilfred Thesiger, before settling on a career in advertising.
He lives in Windsor with his wife Susan and his daughters Alice and Lucy.
His first book, About the Size of It was published in 2007, and his second, How to Live Dangerously, in 2008
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