Rob Dunn 
Every Living Thing [EPUB ebook] 
Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys

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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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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780061979743 ● Verlag HarperCollins ● Erscheinungsjahr 2009 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 5641464 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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