Description: From its birth in the primordial ooze to dung beetles, from bug frass, cat scats and flush toilets to global trade, pandemics and energy, this is the awesome, troubled, unexpurgated life story of shit.
Review Quotes: "In many modern societies, poop is perceived as a problem-- potentially dangerous waste that has no place in our lives... in the cleverly-named The Origin of Feces, Canadian veterinarian and epidemiologist Waltner-Toews does the dirty work of dispelling that perception." -- National Geographic