Si occupa principalmente di argomenti relativi allo studio dell'evoluzione ed ai parassiti.
Ha scritto diversi libri ed articoli scientifici per il quotidiano The New York Times e le riviste Discover, National Geographic, Natural History, Nature e Science. È un docente presso l'Università di Yale.
Tutte le sue opere sono al momento inedite in italiano.
Onorificenze American Association for the Advancement of Science's 2004 American Association for the Advancement of Science's 2009 The Pan American Health Organization's Award for Excellence in International Health Reporting American Institute Biological Science's Media Award Everett Clark Award for Science Writing John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship United States National Academy of Sciences Communication Award Mr. Carl Zimmer è un membro del gruppo Nifty Fifty del USA Science & Engineering Festival, un insieme dei più influenti tra scienziati ed ingegneri negli Stati Uniti che si sono dedicati a rinnovare l'interesse delle giovani generazioni nei confronti di scienza ed ingegneria.USA Science & Engineering Festival's Nifty Fifty .
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Bibliografia At the Water's Edge: Fish With Fingers, Whales With Legs, and How Life Came Ashore But Then Went Back to Sea (1999) ISBN 0-684-85623-9 Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures (2001) ISBN 0-7432-0011-X Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea (2001) ISBN 0-06-019906-7 Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain - and How it Changed the World (2004) ISBN 0-7432-3038-8 Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins (2005) ISBN 0-06-082961-3 Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life (2008) ISBN 037542430X The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution (2009) ISBN 0981519474 Brain Cuttings (2010) ASIN: B0045U9UFM (electronic book) A Planet of Viruses (2011) ISBN 0226983358 Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed (2011) ISBN 978-1402783609 A Planet of Viruses. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Evolution: Making Sense of Life. co-authored with Douglas Emlen. Greenwood Village, Colorado: Roberts and Company, 2016. She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. New York: Dutton, 2018. Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive New York: Dutton, 2021.
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