The Future of Life
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: April 4, 2002
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780316648530
Subjects: Popular science; The Environment; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: The totality of life, known as the biosphere to scientists and creation to theologians, is a membrane of organisms wrapped around Earth so thin it cannot be seen edgewise from a space shuttle, yet so internally complex that most species composing it remain undiscovered.