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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".

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  • 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".
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  • Almost Like a Whale : The Origin of Species Updated
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  • 576.8 21
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  • ISBN 978-0-385-40985-8
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  • QH367 .J75 1999
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  • 41420544
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