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Harvard Professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson takes readers through time--tracing the processes that create new species, the five cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution over the past 600 million years, and how humans are destroying diversity at a projected rate... read more

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IN THE AMAZON BASIN the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon.

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  1. Edward O. Wilson (Author)
 

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