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    Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
    Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
    Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
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    Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys

    Written by Rob Dunn

    Narrated by Tom Perkins

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    Biologist Rob Dunn's Every Little Thing is the story of man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys. In the tradition of E. O. Wilson, this engaging and fascinating work of popular science follows humanity's unending quest to discover every living thing in our natural world-from the unimaginably small in the most inhospitable of places on earth to the unimaginably far away in the unexplored canals on Mars.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 10, 2020
    ISBN9781705201961

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