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Remarkable Creatures

Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

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Description de l’éditeur

National Book Award Finalist: A biologist’s “thoroughly enjoyable” account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet (Publishers Weekly).
 
Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species’ history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. But scientists were about to embark on an amazing new era of understanding.
 
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Big Picture, this book leads us on a rousing voyage that recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of natural 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. Filled with the same sense of adventure that spurred on these extraordinary men and women, Remarkable Creatures is a “stirring introduction to the wonder of evolutionary biology” (Kirkus Reviews).
 
“Charming and enlightening.” —San Francisco Chronicle
 
“As fast-paced as a detective story.” —Nature

GENRE
Science et nature
SORTIE
2014
16 octobre
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
352
Pages
ÉDITIONS
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
TAILLE
43,4
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