Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth by Lynn
Margulis and Karlene Schwartz now boasts an updated molecular perspective. This,
the third edition, is still the beautiful and brilliant compendium of
biodiversity it always has been, only more so. Published by W. H. Freeman,
£25.95, ISBN 0716730278.
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