The Variety of Life: A Survey & a Celebration of All the Creatures that Have Ever Lived

The Variety of Life

A Survey & a Celebration of All the Creatures that Have Ever Lived

By
Colin Tudge
Colin Tudge
2000 • 684 pages

Whatever living thing the reader comes across, from E coli to an oak tree or an elephant, this volume aims to show what kind of creature it is, and how it relates to all the others. Yet there are far too many creatures to present merely as a catalogue.

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