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Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

Sean B. Carroll

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.

ScienceScience · high confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceOpen Library: Evolution (Biology) -- History -> ScienceOpen Library: Evolution (Biology) -> ScienceScientific BiographyNatural History & AnimalsTravel, Exploration & Place

Award History

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor2009FinalistSecondary source
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