Volume 39, Number 18 · November 5, 1992

A Matter of Life and Death

By John Terborgh
The Diversity of Life
by Edward O. Wilson

Harvard University Press (Belknap Press), 424 pp., $29.95

Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard scientist who is one of the world's foremost authorities on the lives of ants and on the problems of ecology, begins his book on a dark night in the middle of the Brazilian rain forest:



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