Almost Like a Whale
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| Author | Steve Jones |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Subject | Evolution |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Pages | 402 |
| ISBN | 978-0-385-40985-8 |
| OCLC | 41420544 |
| 576.8 21 | |
| LC Class | QH367 .J75 1999 |
Steve Jones' book Almost like a Whale is a modern introduction to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and closely follows its structure. It won the 1999 BP Natural World Book Prize.
An American version was published as Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated (ISBN 978-0-375-50103-6).
The title refers to Darwin's observation that a bear, swimming in a lake and catching insects in its mouth, might conceivably evolve over time into a creature "almost like a whale". This statement attracted much ridicule at the time.
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