The Book
Press Voices
“Never before was it so beautifully explained to me how sex came into the world.
Read immediately!”
Berliner Zeitung 10.11.2014
Frankfurter Rundschau 09.12.2014
“A delightful book, a thrilling teaser …”
Braunschweiger Zeitung 22.12.2014
“… a short and worth reading tour through the
(socio-)biology of reproduction.”
Leibnitz-Journal 4/2014
“… with much wordplay …
… are interesting and comprehensible for laymen,
but also offer biologists some new insights.”
Spektrum der Wissenschaften November 2014
“This casual walk through evolutionary history is educational in an amusing way.”
Braunschweiger Zeitung 20.12.2014 to the book reading
Recommendation!
Östereichischer Kurier 17.01.2015
… excitingly explains life science in a pictorial language….
Biospektrum September 2015
Reading Sample
If you are a strawberry plant and have ambitions to conquer not only the next neighborhood but also the big wide world with your strawberry genes, then develop flowers! Invite the bees to the party and have sex with as many different pollen from as many different strawberry plants as possible! After sex, grow many seeds with varying chromosome mixes and package them colorfully and tastily! The birds, hedgehogs, and humans will shit carry your strawberry seeds out into the world.
Team
Susanne Thiele
Biologist, press officer, specialist journalist and novelist with a soft spot for bacteria
Susanne came on board four months before the manuscript was due and managed to write part III of the book “Baustelle Geschlecht” in a very short time.
Vladimir Kochergin
Biologist and teacher with philosophy in his blood
Vladimir provided many tankfuls of writing material and took care of the correct formulations. His expertise was the key to the world of agents and publishers. Without him, the book would have remained a dream.
Thanks to
Gisela Franke,
Gisela Graf und
Cornelia Heller
for inspiration and help at a time when not many had faith in this project.
Thanks to my agent Christine Proske – Ariadne Buch – who showed me the right way stylistically.
Thanks to editor Kathrin Nord, with whom it was a pleasure to do battle for the best sentences.