num_pages: 552
description: "Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins. 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.
language: English
title: The Diversity of Life
titlecomplete: The Diversity of Life (College Edition with Study Materials)
genres: Environment, Science, Biology, Evolution, Nature, History, Natural History, Ecology, Nonfiction, Science Nature
ratings_count: 6023
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: جایزه ادبی مهرگان
category: مهرگان علم
publisher: W.W. Norton & Company