The Diversity of Life

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ISBN: 9780393989809 | 0393989801
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/1/2000

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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.

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Foreword: Biodiversity at the Close of the Century	p. ix
Violent Nature, Resilient Life
Storm over the Amazon	p. 3
Krakatau	p. 16
The Great Extinctions	p. 24
Biodiversity Rising
The Fundamental Unit	p. 35
New Species	p. 51
The Forces of Evolution	p. 75
Adaptive Radiation	p. 94
The Unexplored Biosphere	p. 131
The Creation of Ecosystems	p. 163
Biodiversity Reaches The Peak	p. 183
The Human Impact
The Life and Death of Species	p. 215
Biodiversity Threatened	p. 243
Unmined Riches	p. 281
Resolution	p. 311
The Environmental Ethic	p. 343
Notes	p. 355
Glossary	p. 391
Acknowledgments	p. 408
Credits	p. 411
Index	p. 413
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