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

"Between the covers of [this book] you'll learn both about life's amazing diversity and that process of their discovery. . . .[A] fascinating volume." —Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Enviroment

In a series of vivid portraits of determined—even obsessed—scientists, Rob Dunn shows that we are not even close to knowing life on earth. We are like our ancestors: ignorant. And yet, biologists and lay people alike have through history repeatedly claimed vict...