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- catalog abstract "Ecologist David Wolfe takes us on a tour through current scientific knowledge of the subterranean world. We follow the progress of discovery from Charles Darwin's experiments with earthworms, to Lewis and Clark's first encounter with prairie dogs, to the use of new genetic tools that are revealing an astonishingly rich ecosystem beneath our feet. Wolfe plunges us deep into the earth's rocky crust, where life may have begun -- a world devoid of oxygen and light but safe from asteroid bombardment. Primitive microbes found there are turning our notion of the evolutionary tree of life on its head: amazingly, they represent perhaps a full third of earth's genetic diversity. As Wolfe explains, creatures of the soil can work for us, by providing important pharmaceuticals and recycling the essential elements of life, or against us, by spreading disease and contributing to global climate change.".
- catalog contributor b12200635.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Ecologist David Wolfe takes us on a tour through current scientific knowledge of the subterranean world. We follow the progress of discovery from Charles Darwin's experiments with earthworms, to Lewis and Clark's first encounter with prairie dogs, to the use of new genetic tools that are revealing an astonishingly rich ecosystem beneath our feet. Wolfe plunges us deep into the earth's rocky crust, where life may have begun -- a world devoid of oxygen and light but safe from asteroid bombardment. Primitive microbes found there are turning our notion of the evolutionary tree of life on its head: amazingly, they represent perhaps a full third of earth's genetic diversity. As Wolfe explains, creatures of the soil can work for us, by providing important pharmaceuticals and recycling the essential elements of life, or against us, by spreading disease and contributing to global climate change.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Ancient life -- pt. 2. Life support for planet Earth -- pt. 3. The human factor.".
- catalog extent "x, 221 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Tales from the underground.".
- catalog identifier "0738201286".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tales from the underground.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus,".
- catalog relation "Tales from the underground.".
- catalog subject "QL110 .W65 2001".
- catalog subject "Soil animals.".
- catalog subject "Soil biology Popular works.".
- catalog subject "Soil ecology Popular works.".
- catalog subject "Soil ecology.".
- catalog subject "Underground ecology Popular works.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Ancient life -- pt. 2. Life support for planet Earth -- pt. 3. The human factor.".
- catalog title "Tales from the underground : a natural history of subterranean life / David W. Wolfe.".
- catalog type "text".