• Title: Inanimate Life
• Author(s) George M. Briggs
• Publisher: Milne Open Textbooks (July 14, 2021); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
• Paperback: 824 pages
• eBook: PDF and Read Online
• Language: English
• ISBN-10/ASIN: 1942341822
• ISBN-13: 978-1942341826
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This is an open textbook covering a very traditional biological topic, botany, in a non-traditional way. Rather than a phylogenetic approach, going group by group, the book considers what defines organisms and examines four general areas of their biology.

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