false 6086725 5 An award-wining biologist takes us on the dramatic<BR>expeditions that unearthed the history of life on<BR>our planet.<BR>Just 150 years ago,most of our world was an unexplored<BR>wilderness.Our sense of how old it was? Vague and<BR>vastly off the mark. And our sense of our own species'<BR>history? A set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. Fossils had<BR>been known for millennia, but they were seen as the bones<BR>of dragons and other imagined creatures.<BR>In the tradition of The Microbe Hunters and Gods,<BR>Graves, and Scholars, Sean Carroll's Remarkable Creatures<BR>celebrates the pioneers who replaced our fancies with the<BR>even more amazing true story of how our world evolved.<BR>Carroll recounts the most important discoveries in two<BR>centuries of national history — from Darwin's trip around<BR>the world to CharlesWalcott's discovery of pre-Cambrian<BR>life in the Grand Canyon; from Louis and Mary Leakey's<BR>investigation of our deepest past in East Africa to the<BR>trailblazers in modern laboratories who have located a time<BR>clock in our DNA. Join him in a rousing voyage of discovery,<BR>from the epic journeys of pioneering naturalists to the breakthroughs<BR>making headlines today. 6263614 10 2 2009 Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species total:44|5:12|4:22|3:8|2:2|1:0| 44 176 166 20 4 2 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 17:06:02 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 09:30:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 11:59:37 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 15:09:18 -0700 2009
The very end of the book starts to drag though. After a good overview of Pauling's political...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 13:20:48 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 13:20:48 -0700 2009
This book is a chronicle of the greatest adventures in natural history in the last 200 years. The author Sean Carroll, a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, loo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 15:54:01 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 02:49:33 -0700 2009 In 1584, the Catholic monk Giordano Bruno asserted that there were “countless suns and countless earths all rotating around their suns.” He was charged with heresy and burned at the stake in 1600.
And here I thought peer reviews these days were unforgiving.

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Starts - sorta - with Darwin. But then goes into his contemporaries, students...and inheritors.

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And the photographs astonished me. What a work to retouch those old pics so that they come out as clear as modern ones!]]> 2 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Sep 14 11:24:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 07:31:13 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6086725