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Title

Liaisons of life : from hornworts to hippos, how the unassuming microbe has driven evolution / Tom Wakeford.

Author

Wakeford, Tom.

Publication

New York : J. Wiley, [2001], ©2001.

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Description

vii, 212 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "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.

Subjects

• Evolution (Biology)
• Symbiosis
• Symbiogenesis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-194).

Contents

Ch. 1. Beatrix versus the Botanists -- Ch. 2. The Wood Wide Web -- Ch. 3. Hidden Gardens of Atlantis -- Ch. 4. Bedbugs and Bubble Boys -- Ch. 5. Atoms of Revolution -- Ch. 6. Rewriting Genesis -- Ch. 7. New Gardeners of Eden.

ISBN

0471399728 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

00043911

OCLC

• ocm44883758
• SCSB-4135379

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries