Word: lifeforms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wall outside E.O. Wilson's office, on the fourth floor of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Labs, the covers of his books, each displaying a lifeform he has studied, are tacked up--a tribute to science as natural wonder, science as art. If Professor Wilson's outlook were this simple--that the natural world should stand for itself and anyone who cannot see its grandiosity is insensitive and probably a Republican--then he would be a wonderful explicator, but not a pioneer. What Wilson does, though, in The Diversity of Life, is to create an argument for the preservation...
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