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 156
... methanogens are not bacteria . " Wolfe told Woese they had to be . “ Of course they are bacteria ; they look like bacteria . . . Now , calm down ; come out of orbit . " >> 10 * Nor were they from Mars or some other planet , something ...
... methanogens are not bacteria . " Wolfe told Woese they had to be . “ Of course they are bacteria ; they look like bacteria . . . Now , calm down ; come out of orbit . " >> 10 * Nor were they from Mars or some other planet , something ...
Page 157
... methanogens and other species that were morphologically similar to the methanogens . By the end of the year , the team , led by Woese , had decoded the gene sequences of the RNA of five other methanogens . More were in the works , but ...
... methanogens and other species that were morphologically similar to the methanogens . By the end of the year , the team , led by Woese , had decoded the gene sequences of the RNA of five other methanogens . More were in the works , but ...
Page 269
... methanogens , 154-58 , 155n Metrodorus , 193 microbes , 41 , 74 , 189 bacteria , see bacteria deep sea , chemicals providing energy for , 175-80 , 233-35 , 239-41 evolutionary tree of life and , 151–52 , 158 , 159-60 Leeuwenhoek's ...
... methanogens , 154-58 , 155n Metrodorus , 193 microbes , 41 , 74 , 189 bacteria , see bacteria deep sea , chemicals providing energy for , 175-80 , 233-35 , 239-41 evolutionary tree of life and , 151–52 , 158 , 159-60 Leeuwenhoek's ...
Contents
Common Names | 23 |
The Invisible World | 40 |
The Apostles | 59 |
Copyright | |
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Alvin Amazon animals archaea army ants astrobiologists ATBI bacteria Bates beetles began believe biologists biology canopy carabid Carl Sagan Carl Woese Cavinas Cavineño cells centrioles chloroplasts Ciftcioglu collected Costa Rica creatures deep deep-sea vents discovered discovery diversity DNA barcoding Drake E. O. Wilson endosymbiosis estimate eukaryotes everything evolutionary Frank Drake genes Guanacaste humans hundred hydrogen sulfide ideas imagined insects Janzen Kajander Kayapo kind knew later Leeuwenhoek lineages Linnaeus Linnaeus's living looked Lowell Lynn Margulis Margulis's Mars Martian methanogens microbes microscope mites mitochondria monkeys moths named species nanobacteria nearly ocean organisms perhaps plants Riberalta rock Royal Society rRNA Sami samples scientists seafloor seemed seen space species on Earth story subsurface sumichrasti Swammerdam symbiosis telescope Terry Erwin theory things thought thousand trees tropical forest University Wallace Wirsen Woese's wondered