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

Carroll, Dr. Sean B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547247788 ISBN 13: 9780547247786

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2009

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Book by Carroll Dr Sean B

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"These scientific adventurers inspire the author--and will do the same for experts and novices alike--with their fearless dedication to getting at the truth, as far as it can be known. A stirring introduction to the wonder of evolutionary biology." --Kirkus Review, 12/15/08

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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 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0547247788
• ISBN 13: 9780547247786
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352