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Just 150 years back, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age group was vastly from the mark. And what we believed to be the annals of our own species consisted of fantastic myths and fairy tales; fossils, known for millennia, were seen as the bones of dragons and other thought creatures. How do we learn so much so quickly? Exceptional Animals celebrates the pioneers who changed our fancies with the even more amazing real story of how our world evolved. Inspired by Humboldt, the first group we meet — Darwin, Wallace, and Bates — came back using their explorations with the makings of the theory of evolution. The second group undertook expeditions that produced a few of the most spectacular finds in paleontology: Eugene Dubois uncovered Java Man, the first said 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 breakthrough of the kinship of dinosaurs and wild birds and the introduction of the “fishapod” produced more links in the evolutionary string, as did the work of Louis and Mary Leakey, who for five years searched for our deepest history in East Africa. The ultimate section of the book moves into the laboratory and the near future, following trailblazers who learned a period clock inside our DNA and extracted traditional DNA from extinct species. Sign up for Carroll and his solid of naturalists for a rousing voyage through the most remarkable ventures and important discoveries in two generations of natural background.
