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Dunn, Rob R.
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Biology -- Classification.
Life sciences.
Science -- History.
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Every living thing :...
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Every living thing : man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys / Rob R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson.
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Dunn, Rob R.
New York : Collins, c2009.
Subjects
Biology -- Classification.
Life sciences.
Science -- History.
ISBN:
9780061430305
0061430307
Description:
xiv, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
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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Traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space.
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Hawaii State Library
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