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Informationen zum Autor Dr Graham L. Banes studied zoology at the University of British Columbia, Canada, before graduating from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. For the past seven years, he has been frequently based in the Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesia, earning a PhD from the University of Cambridge for his studies of wild Bornean orang-utans. Dr Banes is a Postdoctoral Scientist at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, a Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an Adjunct Professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and a Research Associate at the nearby Henry Vilas Zoo. He lives between Leipzig, Shanghai and Madison. www.grahamlbanes.com Vorwort A unique one-volume encyclopedia looking at the natural world through lifespans Zusammenfassung This unique book is a treasure-trove of information about the natural world, presented in a truly original and attention-grabbing way. Instead of being arranged in the usual categories – plants, fungi, invertebrates, fish, reptiles, birds and mammals – species are arranged by how long they live. The approach taken is one of objective wonder – from astonishment that the mayfly lives its full life in less time than it takes to read this book, to the awe inspired by trees over a thousand years old and colonies of simple life forms that have existed since before recorded time. At the heart of the book is the human story: a section looks at human life expectancy today and historically.
