Tales from the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life. (Books).DAVID W. WOLFE David W. Wolfe (born October 11, 1942) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 1992, where he represents the 10th legislative district. Take just a pinch of soil and you could be holding a billion individual organisms between your thumb and index finger. Yet most of the microbial microbial pertaining to or emanating from a microbe. microbial digestion the breakdown of organic material, especially feedstuffs, by microbial organisms. species in dirt don't have names. Technology, however, is quickly changing this. Scientists in soil labs now use the tools of molecular biology molecular biology, scientific study of the molecular basis of life processes, including cellular respiration, excretion, and reproduction. The term molecular biology was coined in 1938 by Warren Weaver, then director of the natural sciences program at the Rockefeller to catalog and understand new organisms. Drilling equipment finds independent ecosystems lurking 10,000 feet below the continental crust continental crust See under crust. . In this introduction to soil ecology, Wolfe guides readers on a tour of the subterranean world and reveals the amazing discoveries that are emerging from underground. Originally published in hardcover in 2001. Perseus, 2001, 221 p., b&w photos/illus., paperback, $18.00. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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