The Diversity of Life, Special Edition

Edward O. Wilson

    Violent Nature, Resilient Life

    1. Storm over the Amazon

    2. Krakatau

    3. The Great Extinctions

    Biodiversity Rising

    4. The Fundamental Unit

    5. New Species

    6. The Forces of Evolution

    7. Adaptive Radiation

    8. The Unexplored Biosphere

    9. The Creation of Ecosystems

    10. Biodiversity Reaches the Peak

    The Human Impact

    11. The Life and Death of Species

    12. Biodiversity Threatened

    13. Unmined Riches

    14. Resolution

    15. The Environmental Ethic

    Notes

    Glossary

    Acknowledgments

    Credits

    Index

  • Cover: The Diversity of Life, Special Edition
  • A photo of the author

Author photo: by Jon Chase/Harvard 1996

Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.