Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species (Hardcover)

by Sean Carroll (Author)

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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (Jan 14 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 015101485X
ISBN-13: 978-0151014859
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 545 g
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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 story of how our world evolved. Carroll recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of national history — from Darwin's trip around the world to CharlesWalcott'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. Join him in a rousing voyage of discovery, from the epic journeys of pioneering naturalists to the breakthroughs making headlines today.

About the Author

SEAN B. CARROLL is professor of molecular biology and genetics and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of The Making of the Fittest and Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a best science book of the year in Discover magazine and USA Today. He resides in Wisconsin.

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