Its Latin dedication translates: “This work of a dead Dutchman the English editor (as an animalcule to an ELEPHANT) gives, devotes & dedicates to his dearest brother, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson ...

Malaria’s cause is known: a tiny animalcule injected by a mosquito’s sting. But no one knows what makes the disease so hard to cure permanently. Parasitologists think it is because the malaria ...