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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... 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 for iden- tification. He looked at the bark. He looked at the leaves and the ...
... 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 for iden- tification. He looked at the bark. He looked at the leaves and the ...
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... Linnaeus. Linnaeus was not only willing; he thought he had been chosen by God for the 18 Every Living Thing.
... Linnaeus. Linnaeus was not only willing; he thought he had been chosen by God for the 18 Every Living Thing.
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... Linnaeus got off his mount and pulled out his writing pad. He had seen a flower on the ground, something yellowish ... Linnaeus's horse was listless and ready to move on. Later in the journey, he would describe himself as having had ...
... Linnaeus got off his mount and pulled out his writing pad. He had seen a flower on the ground, something yellowish ... Linnaeus's horse was listless and ready to move on. Later in the journey, he would describe himself as having had ...
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... Linnaeus's accounts, “the most barbaric tract in the whole world.”2 Linnaeus imagined that he would one day rise to greatness. But since at this point he was still green and not yet well known, he would first have to go to the field ...
... Linnaeus's accounts, “the most barbaric tract in the whole world.”2 Linnaeus imagined that he would one day rise to greatness. But since at this point he was still green and not yet well known, he would first have to go to the field ...
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... Linnaeus would save the common language of science. He would rescue it from the stew of names in which it was ... Linnaeus, one that would allow him to believe himself chosen for this mission. His last name came from the word for the ...
... Linnaeus would save the common language of science. He would rescue it from the stew of names in which it was ... Linnaeus, one that would allow him to believe himself chosen for this mission. His last name came from the word for the ...
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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