"If you have any interest in life beyond your own, you should read this book."--Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Dominant Animal Biologist Rob Dunn's Every Little Thing is the story of man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys. In the tradition of E.O. Wilson, this engaging and fascinating work of popular science follows humanity's unending quest to discover every living thing in our natural world--from the unimaginably small in the most inhospitable of places on earth to the unimaginably far ...
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"If you have any interest in life beyond your own, you should read this book."--Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Dominant Animal Biologist Rob Dunn's Every Little Thing is the story of man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys. In the tradition of E.O. Wilson, this engaging and fascinating work of popular science follows humanity's unending quest to discover every living thing in our natural world--from the unimaginably small in the most inhospitable of places on earth to the unimaginably far away in the unexplored canals on Mars.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010275607 Type of material Book Personal name Dunn, Rob R. Main title Every living thing: man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys / Rob R. Dunn; preface by E.O. Wilson. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created [Washington, D.C. ? ]: Smithsonian Books; New York, NY: Collins, c2009. Description xiv, 272 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780061430305 0061430307 LC classification QH83. D87 2009 Related names Wilson, Edward O. Summary "...traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space"--Dust jacket. Contents Beginnings. What we all used to know--Common names--The invisible world--Fogging (the tree of life). The apostles--Finding everything--Finding an ant-riding beetle--Roots. Dividing the cell--Grafting the tree of life--Symbiotic cells on the seafloor--Origin stories--Other worlds. Looking out--To squeeze life from a stone--The wrong elephant? --What remains. Subjects Biology--Classification. Life sciences. Science--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index. Dewey class no. 578.012 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn232977206
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