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Life Beyond Measure

Nature’s Hidden Wonders at Every Scale

6 April 2027 · United States

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Why it is on our radar

Yong makes scale the organizing question of this science book, inviting readers of An Immense World to reconsider life from its smallest forms to its largest.

About the book

Ed Yong explores how scale changes the way life works, from organisms too small to see unaided to the largest forms of life. The book invites readers to reconsider familiar assumptions about bodies, environments and the dimensions through which living things experience the world.