The Diversity of Life

Informationen zum Autor Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Klappentext Wilson, internationally regarded as the dean of biodiversity studies, conducts us on a tour through time, traces the processes that create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and points out the cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution and diminished global diversity over the past 600 million years.

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• Authors: Edward O Wilson, Edward O. Wilson, Edward Osborne Wilson, Wilson Edward O.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2010
• EAN: 9780674058170
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05817-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Questions of Science; Questions of Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, Science, Biodiversity