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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... Earth — which , it turns out , is still a little - known planet . -FROM THE PREFACE BY E. O. WILSON Biologists and ... species ) to another scientist's attempt to find everything in a small patch of jungle in Guanacaste , ( continued on ...
... Earth — which , it turns out , is still a little - known planet . -FROM THE PREFACE BY E. O. WILSON Biologists and ... species ) to another scientist's attempt to find everything in a small patch of jungle in Guanacaste , ( continued on ...
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... Earth . While drinking an espresso and reading People magazine , it is hard ... species around them . Contemporary communities where people gather and hunt ... in the world to find 4 Every Living Thing.
... Earth . While drinking an espresso and reading People magazine , it is hard ... species around them . Contemporary communities where people gather and hunt ... in the world to find 4 Every Living Thing.
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... Earth from space, not yet understood our context. Yet collectively the mammals, birds, and plants of the world would ... species on Earth. In Cavinas, we had “discovered” one of these communities. There were thousands more. The first ...
... Earth from space, not yet understood our context. Yet collectively the mammals, birds, and plants of the world would ... species on Earth. In Cavinas, we had “discovered” one of these communities. There were thousands more. The first ...
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... species in the world and had gone undetected by scientists even though locals had said for years that a big three - hundred - pound turtle - like monster could be found in the lake . Nature delights in making fools of the bi- ologists ...
... species in the world and had gone undetected by scientists even though locals had said for years that a big three - hundred - pound turtle - like monster could be found in the lake . Nature delights in making fools of the bi- ologists ...
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... Earth names the things around them. The scientists of the 1700s wanted better descrip- tions of species. They needed them. There were, by then, tens of species of red army ants. The scientists did what seemed obvious; they made the ...
... Earth names the things around them. The scientists of the 1700s wanted better descrip- tions of species. They needed them. There were, by then, tens of species of red army ants. The scientists did what seemed obvious; they made 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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