Volume 2 · Part II · 1992
The Diversity of Life
Wilson, Edward O.
Published 1992
Author(s) Wilson, Edward O.
LC Class QH313 .W55 1992
LCCN 92009018
Summary
Wilson opens with a vivid personal memoir of camping in the Amazon rain forest during a tropical storm, using the scene to introduce nature's capacity for violent disturbance. The storm becomes an emblem of the disruptive forces that, paradoxically, help generate and maintain the extraordinary diversity of life in such places.
Table of Contents
- Part I · Chapter 1. Storm over the Amazon
- Part I · Chapter 2. Krakatau
- Part I · Chapter 3. The Great Extinctions
- Part II · Chapter 4. The Fundamental Unit
- Part II · Chapter 5. New Species
- Part II · Chapter 6. The Forces of Evolution
- Part II · Chapter 7. Adaptive Radiation
- Part II · Chapter 8. The Unexplored Biosphere
- Part II · Chapter 9. The Creation of Ecosystems
- Part II · Chapter 10. Biodiversity Reaches the Peak
- Part III · Chapter 11. The Life and Death of Species
- Part III · Chapter 12. Biodiversity Threatened
- Part III · Chapter 13. Unmined Riches
- Part III · Chapter 14. Resolution
- Part III · Chapter 15. The Environmental Ethic
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