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.
Rob Dunn
Every Living Thing [EPUB ebook]
Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
Every Living Thing [EPUB ebook]
Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9780061979743 ● 出版者 HarperCollins ● 发布时间 2009 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 5641464 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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