The Variety of Life
Subtitle: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures that Have Ever Lived
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 25, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780198503118
First sentence: WHEN I WAS at school and university in the 1950s and early 60s teachers and pupils took it to be self-evident that biology was about living creatures.