Every living thing : man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Every living thing : man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys
AUTHOR:
Dunn, Rob R.
Wilson, Edward O.
ISBN:
9780061430305
EDITION:
1st ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York, NY : Collins, 2009
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xiv, 272 p. ; 24 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
ABSTRACT:
Traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today’s attempts to find life in space.
SUBJECT:
| Biology -- Classification |
| Life sciences |
| Science -- History |
BIBSUMMARY:
Traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today’s attempts to find life in space.