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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... thousand years ago we thought we knew almost everything ; a hundred years ago , too . But even today , Rob Dunn argues , discoveries we can't yet imagine still await . In a series of vivid portraits of single - minded scientists , Dunn ...
... thousand years ago we thought we knew almost everything ; a hundred years ago , too . But even today , Rob Dunn argues , discoveries we can't yet imagine still await . In a series of vivid portraits of single - minded scientists , Dunn ...
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... thousands of years ago, we all lived in Africa. For most of human history and prehistory, we lived in small, illiterate communities. We began in the savannas where we for- aged and hunted. We collected the animals and plants and named ...
... thousands of years ago, we all lived in Africa. For most of human history and prehistory, we lived in small, illiterate communities. We began in the savannas where we for- aged and hunted. We collected the animals and plants and named ...
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... comes from a bean , the seed of the coffee tree that was planted and do- mesticated nearly a thousand years ago through traditional ecological knowledge in Ethiopia . One could go almost anywhere in the world to find 4 Every Living Thing.
... comes from a bean , the seed of the coffee tree that was planted and do- mesticated nearly a thousand years ago through traditional ecological knowledge in Ethiopia . One could go almost anywhere in the world to find 4 Every Living Thing.
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... thousand miles away). Within the city are small houses, many of which are still roofed with thatch, and a single city block with paved streets. On that paved block are most of the town's two-story houses, all owned at one time or ...
... thousand miles away). Within the city are small houses, many of which are still roofed with thatch, and a single city block with paved streets. On that paved block are most of the town's two-story houses, all owned at one time or ...
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... thousand years ago.1 On the controversial front lines of anthropology, even so timid an assertion invites hate mail. But regardless of just when and how, we know that humans arrived and upon arrival, some individuals continued to move ...
... thousand years ago.1 On the controversial front lines of anthropology, even so timid an assertion invites hate mail. But regardless of just when and how, we know that humans arrived and upon arrival, some individuals continued to move ...
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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