Ebook: Every living thing: man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys
Author: Dr. Rob Dunn
- Tags: Science, SCIENCE--Life Sciences--General, SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: HarperCollins e-Books
- Language: English
- epub
Biologists and laypeople alike have repeatedly claimed victory over life. A 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 traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space. The narrative telescopes from a scientist's attempt to find one single thing (a rare ant-emulating beetle species) to another scientist's attempt to find everything in a small patch of jungle in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. With poetry and humor, Dunn reminds readers how tough and exhilarating it is to study the natural world, and why it matters.>
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