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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. Wilson, including the diversity of life, and the future of life, and more on. The diversity of life is a deft and thoroughly successful mixture of information and prophecy. In an extensive new foreword for this edition, professor wilson addresses the explosion of the field of conservation biology and takes a cleareyed look at the work still. Wilson begins with a discussion of what is a species of plant or animal and how they diversify. Widely regarded as the founder of the field of sociobiology, wilson deftly combines data and rigorous scientific methods with different narratives about how biological life has evolved over time to argue that earth is hurtling towards the sixth. Wilson has observed, have an innateor at least extremely ancientconnection to the natural world, and our. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The first part of the book well over 34 is devoted to a general overview of evolution its history, the mechanisms through which it works, and particularly the process of extinction.
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