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Remarkable creatures : epic adventures in the search for the origins of species
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- Creator
- Sean B. Carroll
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- English
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
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- xix, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780151014859, 015101485X
- OCLC
- ocn231947678
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-311) and index.
- A mixture of spirit and deed -- Introduction: Humboldt's gifts -- 1: The making of a theory -- Reverend Darwin's detour -- Drawing a line between monkeys and kangaroos -- Life imitates life -- 2: The loveliest bones -- Java man -- To the big bang, on horseback -- Where the dragon laid her eggs -- The day the mesozoic died -- Dinosaurs of a feather -- It's a fishapod! -- 3: The natural history of humans -- Journey to the Stone Age -- Clocks, trees, and H-bombs -- CSI: Neander Valley -- Afterword: the shape of things to come
Subjects
- Evolution (Biology) -- History.
- Naturalists -- Travel -- History.
- Biological Evolution.
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- Organelle Biogenesis.
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- Expeditions -- history.
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- History, 19th Century.
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- History, 20th Century.
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