How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the
African savanna or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in
our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules award-winning biologist and author Sean
Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to such simple
yet profoundly important questions and shows how their discoveries matter for our health and
the health of the planet we depend upon. One of the most important revelations about the
natural world is that everything is regulated--there are rules that regulate the amount of
every molecule in our bodies and rules that govern the numbers of every animal and plant in the
wild. And the most surprising revelation about the rules that regulate life at such different
scales is that they are remarkably similar--there is a common underlying logic of life. Carroll
recounts how our deep knowledge of the rules and logic of the human body has spurred the advent
of revolutionary life-saving medicines and makes the compelling case that it is now time to
use the Serengeti Rules to heal our ailing planet.
