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020    0738201286|qhardcover|qalkaline paper 
020    0738206792|qpaperback 
035    (OCoLC)46984480 
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050 00 QL110|b.W65 2001 
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082 00 577.5/7|221 
100 1  Wolfe, David W.|q(David Walter) 
245 10 Tales from the underground :|ba natural history of 
       subterranean life /|cDavid W. Wolfe. 
264  1 Cambridge, Mass. :|bPerseus Pub.,|c[2001] 
264  4 |c©2001 
300    x, 221 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-206). 
505 0  pt. 1. Ancient life -- pt. 2. Life support for planet 
       Earth -- pt. 3. The human factor. 
520    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. 
650  0 Soil animals. 
650  0 Soil ecology. 
994    90|bWHP