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Author Dunn, Rob R.

Title Every living thing : man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys / Rob Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson.

Imprint New York : Harper, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  QH83    Available
 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  QH83    Available
Edition 1st Harper pbk.
Description xiv, 272 p. ; 21 cm.
Note "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2009 by Collins."--T.p. verso.
"Smithsonian Books."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.
Contents Beginnings. What we all used to know ; Common names ; The invisible world -- Fogging (the tree of life). The apostles ; Finding everything ; Finding an ant-riding beetle -- Roots. Dividing the cell ; Grafting the tree of life ; Symbiotic cells o
Summary Traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space.
Subject Biology -- Classification.
Life sciences.
Science -- History.
Added Author Wilson, Edward O.
ISBN 9780061430312
0061430315