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 8
... flowers, and fruits. Below us were the Beni River and its ancient oxbows, grown up in sweeping, verdant swaths of lighter and darker green. As we began to land, the colors grew even brighter and more surreal. As we came closer and ...
... flowers, and fruits. Below us were the Beni River and its ancient oxbows, grown up in sweeping, verdant swaths of lighter and darker green. As we began to land, the colors grew even brighter and more surreal. As we came closer and ...
Page 10
... flowers. The indigenous people of those places, like the people who kept moving, know or knew these ants and trees and the local birds and mammals well, as there are relatively few to know. As humans migrated farther south, they would ...
... flowers. The indigenous people of those places, like the people who kept moving, know or knew these ants and trees and the local birds and mammals well, as there are relatively few to know. As humans migrated farther south, they would ...
Page 14
... flowers (the characteristics we needed to see, thanks to a penchant of Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy, for identifying plants based on their sex parts) and we wrote and wrote and wrote. Felipe did not use the fruit and flowers ...
... flowers (the characteristics we needed to see, thanks to a penchant of Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy, for identifying plants based on their sex parts) and we wrote and wrote and wrote. Felipe did not use the fruit and flowers ...
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... flower on the ground, something yellowish and intriguing. A little farther on, he stopped again and got down. He would make thousands more such stops. He was, like most biologists, a difficult travel companion.* A trip that should have ...
... flower on the ground, something yellowish and intriguing. A little farther on, he stopped again and got down. He would make thousands more such stops. He was, like most biologists, a difficult travel companion.* A trip that should have ...
Page 26
... flowers. Put a flower in his hand and he would calm, his mother would later say. His father was an amateur botanist. He was also a minister and would instill, somehow, a particu- lar sort of religiosity in Linnaeus, one that would allow ...
... flowers. Put a flower in his hand and he would calm, his mother would later say. His father was an amateur botanist. He was also a minister and would instill, somehow, a particu- lar sort of religiosity in Linnaeus, one that would allow ...
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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