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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Page vii
... 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.
... 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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... story or name not mentioned in a lifetime disappeared. Every year the front line of villages moved farther out. It was a slow wave of bodies and livelihoods. Individuals in that front line found, with each move, new animals, new plants ...
... story or name not mentioned in a lifetime disappeared. Every year the front line of villages moved farther out. It was a slow wave of bodies and livelihoods. Individuals in that front line found, with each move, new animals, new plants ...
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... story . Long before Columbus or Magellan , much of the world had been found . Seldom do we consider what those first great explorers in small , fire - lit communities understood of Earth . While drinking an espresso and reading People ...
... story . Long before Columbus or Magellan , much of the world had been found . Seldom do we consider what those first great explorers in small , fire - lit communities understood of Earth . While drinking an espresso and reading People ...
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... story and , at the time of our last visit , only one paved road . Nonetheless , it is the most urban center most people of the region are likely to ever know . agriculture, to the point where we could almost have been 5 What We All Used ...
... story and , at the time of our last visit , only one paved road . Nonetheless , it is the most urban center most people of the region are likely to ever know . agriculture, to the point where we could almost have been 5 What We All Used ...
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... story houses, all owned at one time or another by rubber barons, Brazil nut barons, or the odd mayor. Each night the wealthy of Riberalta (a relative kind of wealth) get into their cars or onto their motorcycles and circle the single ...
... story houses, all owned at one time or another by rubber barons, Brazil nut barons, or the odd mayor. Each night the wealthy of Riberalta (a relative kind of wealth) get into their cars or onto their motorcycles and circle the single ...
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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