Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

Name: Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
Author: Sean B. Carroll
ISBN: 9780547526140

Sean B. Carroll

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Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

Sean B. Carroll

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This book was a National Book Award Finalist. A biologist's account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet. Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species' history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. But scientists were about to embark on an amazing new era of understanding. This book leads us on a rousing voyage that recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of natural history: from Darwin's trip around the world to Charles Walcott's discovery of pre-Cambrian life in the Grand Canyon; from Louis and Mary Leakey's investigation of our deepest past in East Africa to the trailblazers in modern laboratories who have located a time clock in our DNA. Filled with the same sense of adventure that spurred on these extraordinary men and women, Remarkable Creatures captures the wonder of evolutionary biology.

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