TY - BOOK AU - WILSON, O. Edward TI - The diversity of life SN - 0-674-21298-3 U1 - 333.95 WIL 22nd ed. PY - 1992/// CY - Cambidge PB - The Belknap Press KW - Evolution. Artenreichtum N1 - Includes index N2 - here in the perfect bowl of the night sky, untouched by light from any human source, a thunderstorm sends its premonitory signal and begins a slow journey to the observer, who thinks: the world is about to change.” Watching from the edge of the Brazilian rain forest, witness to the sort of violence nature visits upon its creatures, Edward O. Wilson reflects on the crucible of evolution, and so begins his remarkable account of how the living world became diverse ER -