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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
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English
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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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
508
Library of Congress
QH361 .C275 2009

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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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9780151014859
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2008025438
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231947678
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7760777
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