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Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

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An edition of Remarkable Creatures (2009)

Remarkable Creatures

Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

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Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myths and fairy tales; fossils, known for millennia, were seen as the bones of dragons and other imagined creatures. How did we learn so much so quickly? Remarkable Creatures celebrates the pioneers who replaced our fancies with the even more remarkable real story of how our world evolved. - Jacket flap.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Pages
331

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Evolution (Biology), History, Naturalists, Travel, Evolution, history, Biology, history

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First Sentence

"Not so long ago, most of the world was an unexplored wilderness."

Table of Contents

Preface. A Mixture of Spirit and Deed
Page xiii
1. Introduction: Humboldt's Gifts
Page 1
Part One. The Making of a Theory
Page 11
2. Reverend Darwin's Detour
Page 17
3. Drawing a Line between Minkeys and Kangaroos
Page 47
4. Life Imitates Life
Page 61
Part Two. The Loveliest Bones
Page 73
5. Java Man
Page 81
6. To the Big Bang, on Horseback
Page 101
7. Where the Dragon Laid Her Eggs
Page 123
8. The Day the Mesozoic Died
Page 143
9. Dinosaurs of a Feather
Page 161
10. It's a Fishapod!
Page 181
Part Three. The Natural History of Humans
Page 199
11. Journey to the Stone Age
Page 207
12. Clocks, Trees, and H-Bombs
Page 237
13. CSI: Neander Valley
Page 259
Afterword. The Shape of Things to Come
Page 277
Acknowledgments. Acknowledgments
Page 285
References. Sources and Further Reading
Page 287
Index. Index
Page 313

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
508
Library of Congress
QH361 .C275 2009

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xix, 331 p.
Number of pages
331
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

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OL21812643M
ISBN 10
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ISBN 13
9780151014859
LCCN
2008025438
OCLC/WorldCat
231947678
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7760777
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6086725

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