The Diversity of Life
The Diversity of Life

Author: Edward O. Wilson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780393319408

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This classic by the distinguished Harvard entomologist tells how life on earth evolved and became diverse, and now, how diversity and life are endangered by us, truly. While Wilson contributed a great deal to environmental ethics by calling for the preservation of whole ecosystems rather than individual species, his environmentalism appears too anthropocentric: "We should judge every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity." And: "Signals abound that the loss of life's diversity endangers not just the body but the spirit." This reprint of the 1992 Belknap Press publication contains a new foreword. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth
Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth

Author: Nicola Davies

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0763694835

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The more we study the world around us, the more living things we discover every day. The planet is full of millions of species of plants, birds, animals, and microbes, and every single one including us is part of a big, beautiful, complicated pattern. When humans interfere with parts of the pattern, by polluting the air and oceans, taking too much from the sea, and cutting down too many forests, animals and plants begin to disappear. What sort of world would it be if it went from having many types of living things to having just one?--

Evolution and the Diversity of Life
Evolution and the Diversity of Life

Author: Ernst Mayr

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 9780674271050

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The diversity of living forms and the unity of evolutionary processes are the focus of these essays. The collection helps form much of the basis of contempoary undertanding of evolutionary biology.

Diversity of Life
Diversity of Life

Author: Lynn Margulis

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780763708627

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This sophisticated coloring book is a beautifully detailed illustration of the world's living diversity. It is written for science students, teachers, and anyone else who is curious about the extraordinary variety of living things that inhabit this planet. It opens with an introduction to the classification systems, distinctions between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, an introduction to life cycles, Earth history, and an explanation of how to best use this coloring book. The next section is organized by communities in which the organisms live. The final section details the variety of major groupings - phyla - within each kingdom and shows how the organisms in each are distinguished from one other. This coloring book gives a visual understanding of the enormous diversity of life on this planet and will be an enlightening and educational resource for students from a variety of backgrounds.

The Work of Nature
The Work of Nature

Author: Yvonne Baskin

Publisher: Shearwater Books

Published: 1997-02

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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The lavish array of organisms known as "biodiversity" is an intricately linked web that makes the Earth a uniquely habitable plane. In this book, a noted science writer examines the threats posed to humans by the loss of biodiversity and explains key findings from the ecological sciences. It is the first book of its kind to clearly explains the practical consequences of declining biodiversity of ecosystem hjealth and function and, consequently, on human society.

Systematics and the Origin of Species, from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist
Systematics and the Origin of Species, from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist

Author: Ernst Mayr

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780674862500

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This study, first published in 1942, helped to revolutionize evolutionary biology by offering a new approach to taxonomic principles, and correlating the ideas and findings of modern systematics with those of other life disciplines. This book is one of the foundational documents of the Evolutionary Synthesis. It is the book in which Ernst Mayr pioneered his concept of species based chiefly on such biological factors as interbreeding and reproductive isolation, taking into account ecology, geography and life history. In the introduction to this edition, Mayr reflects on the place of this work in the subsequent history of his field.

The Future of Life
The Future of Life

Author: Edward O. Wilson

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2003-03-11

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0679768114

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Eloquent, practical and wise, this book by one of the world’s most important scientists—and two time Pulitzer Prize winner—should be read and studied by anyone concerned with the fate of the natural world. It "makes one thing clear ... we know what we do, and we have a choice" (The New York Times Book Review). E.O. Wilson assesses the precarious state of our environment, examining the mass extinctions occurring in our time and the natural treasures we are about to lose forever. Yet, rather than eschewing doomsday prophesies, he spells out a specific plan to save our world while there is still time. His vision is a hopeful one, as economically sound as it is environmentally necessary.

Biology
Biology

Author: Cecie Starr

Publisher: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company

Published: 2008-10-03

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 9780495558071

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Labeling exercises, self-quizzes, review questions, and critical thinking exercises help students with retention and better test results.

Biodiversity
Biodiversity

Author: National Academy of Sciences/Smithsonian Institution

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 0309037395

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This important book for scientists and nonscientists alike calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressure and the demands of economic development. Based on a major conference sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution, Biodiversity creates a systematic framework for analyzing the problem and searching for possible solutions.

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

Author: Edward O. Wilson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1631490834

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"An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." —Jedediah Purdy, New Republic In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed—such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others—Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).