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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... beetle species ) to another scientist's attempt to find everything in a small patch of jungle in Guanacaste , ( continued on back flap ) 0109 10/24/08 2:21:31 PM * I mean this literally. There was a small night. Front Cover.
... beetle species ) to another scientist's attempt to find everything in a small patch of jungle in Guanacaste , ( continued on back flap ) 0109 10/24/08 2:21:31 PM * I mean this literally. There was a small night. Front Cover.
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... (The Tree of Life) 4. The Apostles 5. Finding Everything 6. Finding an Ant-Riding Beetle Part III Roots 59 87 111 7. Dividing the Cell 133 8. Grafting the Tree of Life 149 xi ix 9. Symbiotic Cells on the Seafloor 165 10. Origin Stories vii.
... (The Tree of Life) 4. The Apostles 5. Finding Everything 6. Finding an Ant-Riding Beetle Part III Roots 59 87 111 7. Dividing the Cell 133 8. Grafting the Tree of Life 149 xi ix 9. Symbiotic Cells on the Seafloor 165 10. Origin Stories vii.
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... but also to the plants, the fungi, the beetles, and the ants, and anything else that was to be used, avoided, or simply discussed. On these organisms and their new names they hung knowledge 3 What We All Used to Know.
... but also to the plants, the fungi, the beetles, and the ants, and anything else that was to be used, avoided, or simply discussed. On these organisms and their new names they hung knowledge 3 What We All Used to Know.
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... beetles in the leaves and the marks left on the leaves by viruses. Because tropical beetles and plant viruses often specialize on single plant species, even their tracks could be used to read the land and species. Felipe's method was ...
... beetles in the leaves and the marks left on the leaves by viruses. Because tropical beetles and plant viruses often specialize on single plant species, even their tracks could be used to read the land and species. Felipe's method was ...
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... beetles and other tropical insects, which are both far harder to find and far more diverse. One by one, I would hold ants up by a leg or two to Felipe. Many ant species simply did not have names or elicited inconsistent or vague and ...
... beetles and other tropical insects, which are both far harder to find and far more diverse. One by one, I would hold ants up by a leg or two to Felipe. Many ant species simply did not have names or elicited inconsistent or vague and ...
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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