Bibliograph

Every living thing, man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys, Rob R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson

Type

Label

Every living thing, man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys, Rob R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-264) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Every living thing

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

232977206

Responsibility statement

Rob R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson

Sub title

man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys

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

Table Of Contents

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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