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Tales for the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life
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Tales for the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life Hardcover - 2001

by David W. Wolfe


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There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell ecologist David Wolfe takes us on a tour through current scientific knowledge of the subterranean world. We follow the progress of discovery from Charles Darwin's experiments with earthworms, to Lewis and Clark's first encounter with prairie dogs, to the use of new genetic tools that are revealing an astonishingly rich ecosystem beneath our feet. Wolfe plunges us deep into the earth's rocky crust, where life may have begun-a world devoid of oxygen and light but safe from asteroid bombardment. Primitive microbes found there are turning our notion of the evolutionary tree of life on its head: amazingly, they represent perhaps a full third of earth's genetic diversity. As Wolfe explains, creatures of the soil can work for us, by providing important pharmaceuticals and recycling the essential elements of life, or against us, by spreading disease and contributing to global climate change. The future of our species may well depend on how we manage our living soil resources. Tales from the Underground will forever alter our appreciation of the natural world around-and beneath-us.

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  • Title Tales for the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life
  • Author David W. Wolfe
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 221
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books (AZ), Cambridge, MA
  • Date May 8, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780738201283 / 0738201286
  • Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.53 x 5.85 x 0.74 in (24.21 x 14.86 x 1.88 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001094836
  • Dewey Decimal Code 577.57
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