Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys

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If you have any interest in life beyond your own, you should read this book. Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Dominant Animal

Biologist Rob Dunns Every Little Thing is the story of mans obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys. In the tradition of E.O. Wilson, this engaging and fascinating work of popular science follows humanitys unending quest to discover every living thing in our natural worldfrom the unimaginably small in the most inhospitable of places on earth to the unimaginably far away in the unexplored canals on Mars.

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"If you have any interest in life beyond your own, you should read this book...Between the covers of EVERY LIVING THING you'll learn both about life's amazing diversity and that process of their discovery. Savor this fascinating volume and then help to preserve life's wonders." -- Paul R. Ehrlich, author of THE DOMINANT ANIMAL: HUMAN EVOLUTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT "His writing is concise and entertaining. So entertaining that I found myself laughing out loud and following my husband around saying, "Listen to this!" over and over again as I read." -- Internet Review of Books

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Rob Dunn is an assistant professor in the department of biology at North Carolina State University. An up-and-coming science popularizer, he has written for National Geographic, Natural History, Scientific American, BBC Wildlife, and Seed magazines. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.