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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... scientists , Dunn traces the history of human dis- covery , from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space . The narrative telescopes from a scientist's attempt to find one ...
... scientists , Dunn traces the history of human dis- covery , from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space . The narrative telescopes from a scientist's attempt to find one ...
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... scientist in me is annoyed by stories about man-jaguars, yet there is undeniable mystery left in the deep forest, mystery enough to lure me farther in. Science requires skepticism, and ... scientists was also an 7 What We All Used to Know.
... scientist in me is annoyed by stories about man-jaguars, yet there is undeniable mystery left in the deep forest, mystery enough to lure me farther in. Science requires skepticism, and ... scientists was also an 7 What We All Used to Know.
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... scientists as early as 1900.* We brought a nice tent and some of our favorite foods. Still, we could not escape the feeling that far from the main road, there was something left to learn. We chartered a small plane from Riberalta to fly ...
... scientists as early as 1900.* We brought a nice tent and some of our favorite foods. Still, we could not escape the feeling that far from the main road, there was something left to learn. We chartered a small plane from Riberalta to fly ...
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... scientist not specializing in ants might name, but not astounding. Either the Cavineño had chosen not to name the ants, or the names had been lost to time. They did, it would later turn out, know about bees, but for the insects at large ...
... scientist not specializing in ants might name, but not astounding. Either the Cavineño had chosen not to name the ants, or the names had been lost to time. They did, it would later turn out, know about bees, but for the insects at large ...
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... scientists recently conducted an inventory of all of the local plants, and the number and kind of those plants that the Tacana could identify or use. Despite the disappearance of many tra- ditional beliefs and practices, nearly all of ...
... scientists recently conducted an inventory of all of the local plants, and the number and kind of those plants that the Tacana could identify or use. Despite the disappearance of many tra- ditional beliefs and practices, nearly all 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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