Nicholas P. Money examines the extraordinary breadth of the microbial world and the vast swathes of biological diversity that can be detected only using molecular methods, and in the process argues for a radical reformulation of biology education.

Nicholas P. Money is Professor of Botany at Miami University and author of The Triumph of the Fungi, Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores, Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard, and Mushroom.