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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 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. Join him in a rousing voyage of discovery, from the epic journeys of pioneering naturalists to the breakthroughs making headlines today.]]> 6086725 7 6263614 10 2 2009 Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species total:48|5:12|4:25|3:9|2:2|1:0| 48 191 193 22 22043 4.00 324 89 50853003 426137 6086727 1847247989 9781847247988 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238371511m/6086727.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238371511s/6086727.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086727.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origins_of_Species 4.00 3
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 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. Join him in a rousing voyage of discovery, from the epic journeys of pioneering naturalists to the breakthroughs making headlines today.]]> 2009 4 2 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...]]> 50422039 673557 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 4.05 41
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.</div>]]> 2009 3 2 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...]]> 70499095 1826775 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 4 0 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...]]> 61228377 2460012 6224730 1423378040 9781423378044 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6224730.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origins_of_Species 3.00 1
Inspired by Humboldt, the first group we meet — Darwin, Wallace, and Bates — returned from their explorations with the makings of the theory of evolution. The second group undertook expeditions that produced some of the most spectacular finds in paleontology: Eugene Dubois uncovered Java Man, the first claimed missing link between apes and humans; Charles Walcott located pre-Cambrian life in the Grand Canyon and Cambrian life in the Burgess Shale; and Roy Chapman Andrews unearthed dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert of Mongolia. The discovery of the kinship of dinosaurs and birds and the emergence of the “fishapod” formed more links in the evolutionary chain, as did the work of Louis and Mary Leakey, who for five decades searched for our deepest past in East Africa. The final section of the book moves into the laboratory and the future, following the trailblazers who discovered a time clock in our DNA and extracted ancient DNA from extinct species.

Join Carroll and his cast of naturalists for a rousing voyage through the most dramatic adventures and important discoveries in two centuries of natural history.]]> 2009 3 0 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.

This book wasn't quit...more...]]> 54000490 130454 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 4 1 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 06:00:54 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 06:29:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 66091695 2524368 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 4 0 false Mon Aug 03 20:27:43 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 20:27:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 46457018 825953 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 0 0 false Sun Feb 15 17:00:27 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 17:00:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 48212773 586840 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 4 0 false Sat Mar 21 13:08:42 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 04 09:36:57 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 21 13:08:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 47043982 1922261 6117057 1847247210 9781847247216 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6117057.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origins_of_Species 4.00 1 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 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.]]> 2009 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 21 08:22:31 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 06 11:41:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45789926 749664 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 4 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 19:58:42 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 16:43:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 64364990 2522484 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jul 21 09:08:57 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 09:10:22 -0700 2009
Starts - sorta - with Darwin. But then goes into his contemporaries, students...and inheritors.

...more...]]> 46736622 929080 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 3 0 false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 07:16:47 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 06:38:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 68401080 1119137 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 5 0 false Fri Aug 21 18:58:12 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 18:59:50 -0700 2009 74515994 6485 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 0 0 false Wed Oct 14 10:53:20 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 10:53:30 -0700 2009 Wormbook. Also, nominated for the 2009 National Book Award.]]> 69459053 1594096 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 2 0 false Sun Aug 30 12:30:28 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 12:31:31 -0700 2009 51708661 643740 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon Apr 06 12:15:53 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 12:16:36 -0700 2009 62408995 2492176 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon Jul 06 18:19:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 18:20:06 -0700 2009 71075700 1031116 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 5 0 false Sun Sep 13 11:54:17 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 11:54:50 -0700 2009 81358664 2515315 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 4 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 17 20:30:32 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 17 20:31:22 -0800 2009 78745984 766841 6086725 015101485X 9780151014859 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725m/6086725.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712725s/6086725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6086725.Remarkable_Creatures_Epic_Adventures_in_the_Search_for_the_Origin_of_Species 3.98 48
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.</div>]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon Nov 23 09:51:19 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 09:51:36 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6086727