Tales From The Underground

Tales From The Underground

by David Wolfe
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 28/04/2009

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There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell 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. The future of our species may well depend on how we manage our living soil resources. Tales from the Underground will forever alter our appreciation of the natural world around-and beneath-us.

ISBN:
9780786730933
9780786730933
Category:
Science: general issues
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
28-04-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Basic Books
David Wolfe

David Wolfe is an internationally acclaimed leader in the field of nutrition and natural beauty with more than twenty years of experience. He is the national spokesperson for the NUTRiBULLET Superfood Nutrition Extractor, cofounder of TheBestDayEver.com online health magazine, and is the author of SuperFoods, Eating for Beauty, and other books. He lives in Northern California.

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