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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... deep forest, mystery enough to lure me farther in. Science requires skepticism, and yet discovery, more often than not, requires a temporary relaxation of that skepticism. To discover something, you first have to believe it is possible ...
... deep forest, mystery enough to lure me farther in. Science requires skepticism, and yet discovery, more often than not, requires a temporary relaxation of that skepticism. To discover something, you first have to believe it is possible ...
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... deep by use . It was , at least in terms of our own quest , an auspicious place , a place where people might still , despite everything , name , know , and understand the biota around them . If anywhere , we thought , then here ...
... deep by use . It was , at least in terms of our own quest , an auspicious place , a place where people might still , despite everything , name , know , and understand the biota around them . If anywhere , we thought , then here ...
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... deep pleasure, there was much to see. We went out with several such men, but came to depend on one, Felipe, who was most willing to be our guide. Felipe had some plants he wanted to look for anyway (mir- acle sex plants, we would later ...
... deep pleasure, there was much to see. We went out with several such men, but came to depend on one, Felipe, who was most willing to be our guide. Felipe had some plants he wanted to look for anyway (mir- acle sex plants, we would later ...
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... deep . In many ways Cavinas was , for us , not just a model of what we all once knew , but also a model of how we still see the world . With each stage of biological discovery , we populate the next frontier with mon- sters in the way ...
... deep . In many ways Cavinas was , for us , not just a model of what we all once knew , but also a model of how we still see the world . With each stage of biological discovery , we populate the next frontier with mon- sters in the way ...
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... deep in water. We slogged on, and the farther we got, the hotter and wetter we became, and the more I complained to Sarah about collecting so many damned plant samples (which I bore in my pack). We waded through the wet savannas of ...
... deep in water. We slogged on, and the farther we got, the hotter and wetter we became, and the more I complained to Sarah about collecting so many damned plant samples (which I bore in my pack). We waded through the wet savannas of ...
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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