The Diversity of Life
$39.32
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2001
Summary
“Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery” - Richard Dawkins
In this book, a master scientist tells the great story of how life on Earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity today is beyond the scope of anything we have known before.
In an extensive new foreword for this edition, Professor Wilson addresses the explosion of the field …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140291612 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014029161X |
| Author: | Edward O. Wilson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Penguin Press Science |
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“Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery” - Richard Dawkins”
About The Author
Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the world’s pre-eminent biologists and naturalists. The author of more than thirty books, including Consilience, The Diversity of Life, The Social Conquest of Earth, The Meaning of Human Existence and Letters to a Young Scientist, Wilson is a Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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