Marlene Zuk
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MARLENE ZUK is a professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can’t Learn about Sex from Animals and Riddled With Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make us Who We Are.

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Insect Facts: What They Tell Us About Ourselves (PHOTOS)

Posted August 4, 2011 | 18:24:52 (EST)

People are more afraid of insects than they are of dying, at least if you believe "The Book of Lists." Only public speaking and heights exceeded the six-legged as sources of fear, although "financial problems" and "deep water" tied with insects at number three. Dying came in at number six....

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