Almost Like a Whale

Almost Like a Whale

Infobox Book
name = Almost Like a Whale : The Origin of Species Updated
author = Steve Jones
country = UK
subject = Evolution
publisher = Doubleday
pub_date = 1999
pages = 402
isbn = ISBN 978-0385409858
oclc = 41420544

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 9780375501036).

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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