Inquiry: Jim Edwards Jim Hanken: The Encyclopedia of Life

• Artist: Mark Lynch
• Title: Jim Edwards Jim Hanken: The Encyclopedia of Life
• Album: Inquiry
• Year: 2008
• Length: 30:00 minutes (9.45 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 43Kbps (VBR)

Imagine a vast colorful encyclopedia that would list every single living species of animal, invertebrate, protozoa and plant in existence and include a picture, description, range map and references? This would be nothing less than the “book of life” for our planet. That dream project of every biologist and natural historian is becoming a reality with the massive on-line project called THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE. Tonight Inquiry welcomes JIM EDWARDS from the Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution and Executive Director of the Encyclopedia Of Life and JIM HANKEN of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and Chair of the Encyclopedia Of Life Steering Committee. Edwards and Hanken discuss how this audacious project got off the ground, what they hope to accomplish with the web site and how you can help. To visit the Encyclopedia Of Life, go to: http://www.eol.org