Every Living Thing - Man s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New

Zusatztext "His writing is concise and entertaining. So entertaining that I found myself laughing out loud and following my husband around saying! "Listen to this!" over and over again as I read." Informationen zum Autor Rob Dunn is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University and the author of several books, including Every Living Thing . A rising star in popular-science journalism, he writes for National Geographic , Natural History , Scientific American , BBC Wildlife , and Seed magazine. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with many thousands of wild species, including at least one species of mite living on his head. Klappentext 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 us. More is unknown than known, whether about our bodies or the bottom of the sea. In a series of vivid portraits of scientists as interesting as the mysteries they chase, Dunn introduces the reader to breakthroughs that have changed the world and others that might still. With poetry and humor, Dunn reminds readers how tough and exhilarating it is to study the natural world, and why it matters. Zusammenfassung “If you have any interest in life beyond your own, you should read this book.” —Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Dominant Animal   Biologist Rob Dunn’s Every Little Thing is the story of man’s obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys. In the tradition of E.O. Wilson, this engaging and fascinating work of popular science follows humanity’s unending quest to discover every living thing in our natural world—from the unimaginably small in the most inhospitable of places on earth to the unimaginably far away in the unexplored canals on Mars. ...

Product details

• Authors: Rob Dunn, Rob R Dunn, Rob R. Dunn
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.04.2010
• EAN: 9780061430312
• ISBN: 978-0-06-143031-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Evolution, Applied ecology, Biodiversity, Biology, life sciences, Wildlife: general interest, Zoology and animal sciences, HISTORY: WORLD, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Evolution, NATURE: Animals / General, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE: History, SCIENCE: Research & Methodology, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, NATURE: Ecology, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Taxonomy, Taxonomy and systematics