This brief and specialized book was designed for general non-major biology courses, and presents the six kingdoms of life in an evolutionary framework. This book includes descriptions, illustrations, life cycles of representative viruses, bacteria, protistans, fungi, plants, invertebrates, and more. DIVERSITY OF LIFE covers Unit IV, "Evolution and Biodiversity", from the authors' main text, BIOLOGY: THE UNITY AND DIVERSITY OF LIFE, Ninth Edition, and includes a customized table of contents and the back matter (the glossary, the index, etc.) from the larger book.