Remarkable Creatures
Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
[Solon, Ohio] : Playaway Digital Audio, [released 2009]
Format: Audiobooks
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 1 sound media player (approximately 9 hr.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Celebrates the pioneers who helped discover the remarkable real story of how our world evolved. Inspired by Humboldt, the first group we meet -- Darwin, Wallace, and Bates -- returned from their explorations with the makings of the theory of evolution. The second group undertook expeditions that produced some of the most spectacular finds in paleontology: Eugene Dubois uncovered Java Man, the first claimed missing link between apes and humans; Charles Walcott located pre-Cambrian life in the Grand Canyon and Cambrian life in the Burgess Shale; and Roy Chapman Andrews unearthed dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert of Mongolia. The discovery of the kinship of dinosaurs and birds and the emergence of the "fishapod" formed more links in the evolutionary chain, as did the work of Louis and Mary Leakey, who for five decades searched for our deepest past in East Africa. The final section of the book moves into the laboratory and the future, following the trailblazers who discovered a time clock in our DNA and extracted ancient DNA from extinct species.
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Talking books.
Naturalists -- Travel -- History -- Talking books.
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Talking books.
Naturalists -- Travel -- History -- Talking books.
ISBN:
9781441803948
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Release date supplied by publisher.
Previously released by Brilliance Audio, p2009.
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
Playaway.
Read by Jim Bond.
Release date supplied by publisher.
Previously released by Brilliance Audio, p2009.
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
Playaway.
Read by Jim Bond.