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Science 20 March 2009:
Vol. 323. no. 5921, pp. 1562 - 1563
DOI: 10.1126/science.1170526
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ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH:
Humans Need Biodiversity

David P. Mindell

Sustaining Life
How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York, 2008. 566 pp. $34.95, £18.99. ISBN 9780195175097.
Examining topics such as ecosystem services, medicines, biomedical research, infectious diseases, and food production, the contributors offer a thorough summary of the importance of biodiversity to well-being.
The reviewer is at the California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA. E-mail: dmindell{at}calacademy.org

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