Name: Ed Yong
Uploaded: 2014-03-26T15:05:29Z
Duration: 13 min
Description: 我们人类珍视我们的自由意志和独立。。。但是有一些暗中操控被我们所忽略。作为科普作家，勇埃德在这个吸引人，幽默，并令人不安的演讲中，令人信服地解释了寄生虫对于操控艺术的升华。但是寄生虫也在操控我们么？这真的很有可能。

Why join groups? Lessons from parasite-manipulated Artemia

'Suicide' of crickets harbouring hairworms: A proteomics investigation

Do Leucochloridium sporocysts manipulate the behaviour of their snail hosts?

*Parasite Rex*

Parasitoid increases survival of its pupae by inducing hosts to fight predators

Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries

Nematomorph parasites drive energy flow through a riparian ecosystem

I mispronounced the Japanese scientist Takuya Sato's name as Takuya Soto. I sincerely regret the error.

Carl Zimmer: Parasite tales: The jewel wasp's zombie slave

Mice infected with low-virulence strains of Toxoplasma gondii lose their innate aversion to cat urine, even after extensive parasite clearance

Increased incidence of traffic accidents in Toxoplasma-infected military drivers and protective effect RhD molecule revealed by a large-scale prospective cohort study

*On the Origin of Species*

我们人类珍视我们的自由意志和独立。。。但是有一些暗中操控被我们所忽略。作为科普作家，勇埃德在这个吸引人，幽默，并令人不安的演讲中，令人信服地解释了寄生虫对于操控艺术的升华。但是寄生虫也在操控我们么？这真的很有可能。

Ed Yong

Animals often act under the hidden control of parasites that hijack their bodies and minds for the parasite's own benefit. From tapeworms making shrimp gather in bright, flamingo-attracting swarms to wasps turning caterpillars into zombie bodyguards, manipulation is common in nature. Some parasites even alter the behavior of mammals, with one in three people estimated to carry a brain parasite called Toxoplasma. These invisible forces challenge our ideas about free will and the true drivers of behavior in the natural world.