Rob Dunn
Robb Dunn is writer and professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University. He is the author of books such as Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys, The Wild Life of Our Bodies, The Man Who Touched His Own Heart, Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future, Never Home Alone, and A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species.
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When we try to recreate simpler versions of natural ecosystems, we invariably make mistakes, argues author and biologist Rob Dunn.