The Diversity of Life |
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| Author:
| Wilson, Edward O. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-393-98980-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1999 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.90 |
Book Description:
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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 of 20 percent over the next 30 years.
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 of 20 percent over the next 30 years.