TY - BOOK AU - WILSON, Edward O. TI - The dirvesity of life SN - 0-393-31940-7 U1 - 333.95 WIL 22nd ed. PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - W. W. Norton & Co. KW - Biology -- Laboratory manuals. Biodiversity N1 - Includes bibliography and index N2 - Wilson, internationally regarded as the dean of biodiversity studies, conducts us on a tour through time, traces the processes that create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and points out the cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution and diminished global diversity over the past 600 million years ER -