The Diversity of Life With a New Preface |
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| Author:
| Wilson, Edward O. |
| Series title: | Questions of Science Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-05817-0 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Imprint: | Belknap Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Wilson, internationally regarded as the dean of biodiversity studies, conducts us on a tour through time, traces the processes that create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and points out the cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution and diminished global diversity over the past 600 million years.
Wilson, internationally regarded as the dean of biodiversity studies, conducts us on a tour through time, traces the processes that create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and points out the cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution and diminished global diversity over the past 600 million years.