LoginRemarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species
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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 how old it was? Vague and vastly off the mark. And our sense of our own species’ history? A set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. Fossils had been known for millennia, but they were seen as the bones of dragons and other imagined creatures.
In the tradition of The Microbe Hunters and Gods, Graves, and Scholars, Sean Carroll’s Remarkable Creatures celebrates the pioneers who replaced our fancies with the even more amazing true
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release date: 10 February 2009
ISBN-10 : 015101485X | ISBN-13: 9780151014859
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Release date: 10 February 2009
ISBN-10 : 015101485X | ISBN-13: 9780151014859
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