Every living thing
Subtitle: man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from Nanobacteria to new monkeys
By: Rob R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson.
Contributors: Wilson, Edward O.; Smithsonian Books (Publisher) 
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780061430305
Subjects: Biology -- Classification.; Life sciences.; Science -- History.
Genres: Classification.
Description: Traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space.
Notes: "Smithsonian books."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.