Edens Endemics Narratives Of Biodiversity On Earth And Beyond

In The Past Thirty Years Biodiversity Has Become One Of The Central Organizing Principles Through Which We Understand The Nonhuman Environment. Its Deceptively Simple Definition As The Variation Among Living Organisms Masks Its Status As A Hotly Contested Term Both Within The Sciences And More Broadly. In Eden's Endemics, Elizabeth Callaway Looks To Cultural Objects--novels, Memoirs, Databases, Visualizations, And Poetry-- That Depict Many Species At Once To Consider The Question Of How We Narrate Organisms In Their Multiplicity.touching On Topics Ranging From Seed Banks To Science Fiction To Bird-watching, Callaway Argues That There Is No Set, Generally Accepted Way To Measure Biodiversity.