The Diversity of Life (Penguin Science)

by Edward O Wilson (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.41

  Written by Edward O. Wilson, Professor at Harvard University, inventor of sociobiolology and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book looks at the extraordinary diversity of life on our planet, exploring the reasons for biological diversity, the nature and processes of evolutionary adaption and speciation and threat of human-induced extinction.

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  Paperback
  1999

  $14.79

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $14.02

  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 of conservation biology and takes a clear-eyed look at the work still to be done.