Every living thing: man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys/
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[Washington, D.C.?]: New York, NY:
Smithsonian Books ; Collins,
c2009
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Table of 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.