Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys“If you have any interest in life beyond your own, you should read this book.”
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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Page 7
... Cavineño community southwest of Riberalta, to document the in- habitants' use of medicinal plants, bring in some school supplies, and understand what a community so far from the road, so. * I mean this literally. There was a small night ...
... Cavineño community southwest of Riberalta, to document the in- habitants' use of medicinal plants, bring in some school supplies, and understand what a community so far from the road, so. * I mean this literally. There was a small night ...
Page 8
... Cavineño what they knew about ants. See, for example, Wheeler, W. M. and W. M. Mann. 1923. A Singular habit of sawfly larvae. Psyche 30: 9–12. * When asked about their worldview and origin stories, two 8 Every Living Thing.
... Cavineño what they knew about ants. See, for example, Wheeler, W. M. and W. M. Mann. 1923. A Singular habit of sawfly larvae. Psyche 30: 9–12. * When asked about their worldview and origin stories, two 8 Every Living Thing.
Page 11
... Cavineño in Cavinas by the end of the eighteenth century . The missionaries used the Cavineño to help them extract the cinchona bark used to treat malaria . Missionaries sold cin- chona , which was abundant around Cavinas , for export ...
... Cavineño in Cavinas by the end of the eighteenth century . The missionaries used the Cavineño to help them extract the cinchona bark used to treat malaria . Missionaries sold cin- chona , which was abundant around Cavinas , for export ...
Page 13
... Cavineño for what was either a place for us to sleep or our own Cavineño still nonexistent — a way to take all our things and drop us off with the navy . Fortunately , it was the former . We were given a small space in the radio room ...
... Cavineño for what was either a place for us to sleep or our own Cavineño still nonexistent — a way to take all our things and drop us off with the navy . Fortunately , it was the former . We were given a small space in the radio room ...
Page 14
... Cavineño, we began working with a trans- lator. The children were our greatest help in translating. At least they seemed to be, until we realized we had spent several days saying “penis” instead of “eat.” Each morning we went out to ...
... Cavineño, we began working with a trans- lator. The children were our greatest help in translating. At least they seemed to be, until we realized we had spent several days saying “penis” instead of “eat.” Each morning we went out to ...
Contents
23 | |
The Invisible World | 40 |
Part II | 57 |
Dividing the Cell | 133 |
Grafting the Tree of Life | 149 |
Origin Stories | 181 |
Looking Out | 193 |
To Squeeze Life from a Stone | 209 |
The Wrong Elephant? | 224 |
What Remains | 246 |
Endnotes | 257 |
Index | 265 |
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