The Diversity of Life
By (Author) Edward O. Wilson
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
26th April 2001
26th April 2001
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Conservation of wildlife and habitats
333.95
Paperback
432
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
291g
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.
"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins"
Edward O. Wilson is the Pellegrino University Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology at Harvard University. He is the author of SOCIOBIOLOGY, the two Pulitzer Prize-winning works ON HUMAN NATURE and THE ANTS, and the bestselling CONSILIENCE.