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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 R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson.
Publication Info.	New York : Collins, c2009.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	574 D	IN LIBRARY

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xiv, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Note	"Smithsonian Books."
	Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.
Contents	Part I: Beginnings. What we all used to know -- Common names -- The invisible world -- Part II: Fogging (the tree of life). The apostles -- Finding everything --Finding an ant-riding beetle -- Part III : Roots. Dividing the cell -- Grafting the tree of life -- Symbiotic cells on the seafloor -- Origin stories -- Part IV : Other worlds. Looking out -- To squeeze life from a stone -- The wrong elephant? -- What remains.
Subject	Species -- Classification.
	Species -- Nomenclature.
	Biology -- History.
	Discoveries in science -- History.
Added Author	Wilson, Edward O., author of preface.
Added Title	Man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys
ISBN	9780061430305
	0061430307

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