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

by Sean B Carroll

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ISBN13: 9780547247786
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An award-winning biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet.

 

Just 150 years 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. In the tradition of The Microbe Hunters and Gods, Graves, and Scholars, Sean Carroll leads a rousing voyage that recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of natural history: from Darwins trip around the world to Charles Walcotts discovery of pre-Cambrian life in the Grand Canyon; from Louis and Mary Leakeys investigation of our deepest past in East Africa to the trailblazers in modern laboratories who have located a time clock in our DNA.

About the Author

SEAN CARROLL is a professor of molecular biology and genetics and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also the author of The Making of the Fittest and Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo.

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ISBN:
9780547247786
Subtitle:
Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
Author:
Carroll, Sean B
Author:
Carroll, Sean
Author:
Carroll, Sean B.
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Subject:
History
Subject:
Life Sciences - Evolution
Subject:
Expeditions & Discoveries
Subject:
Evolution (Biology) -- History.
Subject:
Naturalists - Travel - History
Subject:
History of Science-General
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Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Publication Date:
20091203
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
74 halftones
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
8 x 5.31 in 0.71 lb

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