TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carroll,Sean B.
TI  - Remarkable creatures: epic adventures in the search for the origins of species 
SN  - 9780151014859
AV  - QH 361 C319r 2009
U1  - 508 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - History
KW  - Naturalists
KW  - Travel
KW  - Evolución (Biología)
KW  - Historia
KW  - Naturalistas
KW  - Viajes
KW  - Evolution (biologie)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - ram
KW  - Naturalistes
KW  - Voyages
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-311) and Index; A mixture of spirit and deed
Introduction: Humboldt's gifts
1: The making of a theory
Reverend Darwin's detour
Drawing a line between monkeys and kangaroos
Life imitates life
2: The loveliest bones
Java man
To the big bang, on horseback
Where the dragon laid her eggs
The day the mesozoic died
Dinosaurs of a feather
It's a fishapod!
3: The natural history of humans
Journey to the Stone Age
Clocks, trees, and H-bombs
CSI: Neander Valley
Afterword: the shape of things to come
N2  - An award-wining biologist explores the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on Earth--from the epic journeys of pioneering naturalists to the breakthroughs making headlines today
ER  -