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Almost Like a Whale

In this book, author Steve Jones uses anecdotes, facts, humour and 20th-century science to update the theories presented in Darwin’s The Origin of the Species.

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Almost Like a Whale

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Jones, a geneticist, assumes Darwin’s standpoint and rewrites his masterpiece for the modern reader, borrowing the structure and thesis but updating it with the benefit of 150 years of hindsight. Almost Like a Whale draws widely on case studies and new research to reinforce the claims of evolutionary theory, such as embryology and Jones' own discipline of genetics.

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