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Description edit
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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First Sentence edit
IN THE AMAZON BASIN the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Edward O. Wilson (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Belknap Pr
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0674212983
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Belknap Pr
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0674212983
Page Count: 432
Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 1992: General Nonfiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 333.95
Subjects edit
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Biological Sciences › Ecology
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Earth Sciences › Environmental Science
- Books › Science › Earth Sciences › Environmental Science
- Books › Science › Biological Sciences › Ecology
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Evolution
- Books › Science › Evolution
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