Liaisons of Life
From Hornworts to Hippos, How the Unassuming Microbe has Driven Evolution
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Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveliaisonslifefrom00wake
- Internet Archiveliaisonsoflifefr01wake
- Internet Archiveliaisonsoflifefr0000wake
- ISBN-100471399728
- ISBN-139780471399728
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- Goodreads3786853
- LibraryThing1080943
- Library of Congress Control Number00043911
- OCLC Control Number49414978
- OCLC Control Number44883758
- Better World Books9780471399728
- Open LibraryOL7616642M
Classifications
- LCCQH548 .W25 2001
- LCCQH548.W25 2001
- LCCQH548 .W25 2001eb
Description
"Staying alive is as much about bonding with your neighbors as it is about competing with them. The evidence is all around us but is easily overlooked - it lies hidden in the evolutionary alliances that every plant and animal forges with one sort of microbe or another. Microbes have long been reviled as "germs" and carriers of disease, yet biologist and award-winning writer Tom Wakeford shows how they have blazed a trail of evolutionary innovation without which life as we know it would not exist.". "Drawing together new evidence on everything from deep-sea volcanoes to the gaps between our teeth, Wakeford also charts the precarious fortunes of the pioneers of the theory of symbiosis: Beatrix Potter, H. G. Wells, Louis Pasteur, and Lynn Margulis.". "As a direct challenge to the "tooth and claw" view of evolution, symbiosis has created a firestorm of controversy in the scientific community since it was first proposed one hundred and fifty years ago, only to be vindicated in recent years."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
The Great War was the decisive factor in the rise of "the struggle for existence" as the metaphor to explain all biological phenomena.
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