01247cam a2200205Ja 4500020001500000020001800015020001500033020001800048020001500066020001800081040000800099082002600107100002200133245002800155260003600183300004700219520072600266650001800992650003101010  a0393035387  a9780393035384  a0393310477  a9780393310474  a0393964574  a9780393964578  cDLC00a333 WWN 1993 A017 Or.1 aWilson, Edward O.14aThe diversity of life /  aNew York :bW.W. Norton,c1993.  a424 p. :bill. (some col.), maps ;c25 cm.1 a"In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. Edward O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity today is beyond the scope of anything we have known before." "The Diversity of Life has quickly become a classic text in its definition of a new environmental ethic - our obligation to rescue ecosystems, not simply individual species - and its prescient call for an end to the conservation versus development argument. In an extensive new foreword for this edition, Professor Wilson addresses the explosion of the field of conservation biology and takes a clear-eyed look at the work still to be done."--BOOK JACKET. 0aBiodiversity. 0aBiodiversity conservation.