<DIV><DIV>One hundred fifty years ago, most of the world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age and origins was vastly off the mark, and our own species&#8217; history was a set of myths and fairy tales. How did we learn so much so fast?</DIV><DIV><BR>&nbsp;In the tradition of <I>The Microbe Hunters</I> and <I>Gods, Graves, and Scholars</I>, Sean Carroll&#8217;s <I>Remarkable Creatures</I> celebrates the pioneers who replaced our fanciful notions with the amazing true story of how our world evolved. Carroll recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of natural history&#8212;from Darwin&#8217;s trip around the world to Charles Walcott&#8217;s discovery of Precambrian life in the Grand Canyon; from Louis and Mary Leakey&#8217;s investigations of humanity&#8217;s deepest past in East Africa to the trailblazers in modern laboratories who have located a time clock in our DNA. Join Carroll in a rousing voyage of discovery, from the journeys of pioneering naturalists to the breakthroughs making headlines today.<BR></DIV></DIV>