Specimens: The Search for Life on a Little Known Planet and How It Changed Our World

Specimens: The Search for Life on a Little Known Planet and How It Changed Our World was originally published in The New York Times. It examines the search for life -- not wishful thinking about extraterrestrials, but the myriad strange life forms with which we share this planet. It looks beyond Darwin's accomplishments to find a number of colorful characters whose discoveries of new species have transformed our lives in ways we scarcely recognize.