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2009

Format:	Book
Author:	Dunn, Rob.
Title:	Every living thing : man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys / Rob R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson.
Edition:	1st ed.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Collins, ©2009.
Description:	xiv, 272 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:	Biology -- Classification. Life sciences. Science -- History.
Other Author:	Wilson, Edward O., writer of preface. Wilson, Edward O.
Notes:	"Smithsonian Books." Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 on the seafloor ; Origin stories -- Other worlds. Looking out ; To squeeze life from a stone ; The wrong elephant? ; What remains.
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LCCN:	2010275607
ISBN:	9780061430305 0061430307 9780061430312 0061430315
Other Number:	232977206
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Control Number:	329894
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Call Number:	578.012 Dunn

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