An edition of Every living thing (2008)

Every living thing

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

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An edition of Every living thing (2008)

Every living thing

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

1st ed.

by

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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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Collins
Language
English
Pages
272

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Subjects
Science, Biology, Life sciences, Classification, History, Nonfiction, Biology -- Classification., Life (biology), Human evolution

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Every living thing: man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from Nanobacteria to new monkeys
2009, Collins
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Every Living Thing
2008, HarperCollins
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"Smithsonian books."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
578.012
Library of Congress
QH83 .D87 2009

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Pagination
xiv, 272 p. ;
Number of pages
272

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OL23118115M
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0061430307
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9780061430305
LCCN
2010275607
OCLC/WorldCat
232977206
Library Thing
7462366
Goodreads
5832289

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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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