Every living thing : man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys / Rob R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson.
Dunn, Rob R.; Wilson, Edward O.
2009
QH83 .D87 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Every living thing : man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys / Rob R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson.
Author Dunn, Rob R.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780061430305
0061430307
Imprint New York : Collins, c2009.
Language English
Description xiv, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number QH83 .D87 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 578.012
Summary Traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space.
Note "Smithsonian Books."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Wilson, Edward O.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Beginnings. What we all used to know. Common names. The invisible world
Fogging (the tree of life). The apostles. Finding everything. Finding an ant-riding beetle
Roots. Dividing the cell. Grafting the tree of life. Symbiotic cells on the seafloor. Origin stories
Other worlds. Looking out. To squeeze life from a stone. The wrong elephant? What remains.

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