Remarkable creatures

Resumen

An award-wining biologist takes us on the dramatic
expeditions that unearthed the history of life on
our planet.
Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored
wilderness.Our sense of how old it was? Vague and
vastly off the mark. And our sense of our own species
history? A set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. Fossils had
been known for millennia, but they were seen as the bones
of dragons and other imagined creatures.
In the tradition of The Microbe Hunters and Gods,
Graves, and Scholars, Sean Carrolls Remarkable Creatures
celebrates the pioneers who replaced our fancies with the
even more amazing true story of how our world evolved.
Carroll recounts the most important discoveries in two
centuries of national history -- from Darwins trip around
the world to CharlesWalcotts discovery of pre-Cambrian
life in the Grand Canyon; from Louis and Mary Leakeys
investigation of our deepest past in East Africa to the
trailblazers in modern laboratories who have located a time
clock in our DNA. Join him in a rousing voyage of discovery,
from the epic journeys of pioneering naturalists to the breakthroughs
making headlines today.