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| Into The Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution | 
 enlarge | Author: Sean B. Carroll
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Category: Book
List Price: $20.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0321556712
Dewey Decimal Number: 570
EAN: 9780321556714
Publication Date: October 4, 2008
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Key Message: Into the Jungle invites students to step into the lives of naturalists who followed their dreams, and often risked their lives, to explore the unknown. Each of the nine stories in this brief reader chronicles the dramatic adventures of an influential zoologist, geologist, paleontologist, or geneticist on their path to some of the most important discoveries that have shaped our understanding of how life has evolved. Accessible and engaging, Carroll’s storytelling approach helps students appreciate the physical hardships the featured explorers endured and the obstacles they had to overcome in challenging societal belief systems and initiating paradigm shifts in the scientific community. In reading the tales, students will also come to understand the frequent role of serendipity in scientific discovery. Key Topics: Reverend Darwin’s Detour, Drawing a Line between Monkeys and Kangaroos, Life Imitates Life, Java Man, Where the Dragon Laid Her Eggs, The Day the Mesozoic Died, Miss Latimer’s Extraordinary Fish, A Sickle-Cell Safari, In Cold Blood: The Tale of the Icefish, General Review and Discussion, Sources and Further Reading Market: Intended for those in learning the basics of evolutionary biology.
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Don't know how to rate this one October 24, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sean Carroll: brilliant evolutionary biologist and great author of "Making of the Fittest" [a must read]writes this book for what I'd guess is middle school students. Obviously, Carroll is a major league science popularizer. This book doesn't hook me, though. I don't know if it's just that I'm too old [52] and know the more detailed accounts of many of these stories. I'd like to hear from parents what their kids think of it.
The chapters have questions in the back like a textbook. So it feels like a "school book" [which turns me off as a pleasure reader]. And, in fact, it might work really well in that context...say one story a month throughout the school year.
What middle school book by Sean Carroll would I stand in line for? Explaining the DNA evidence of inter-relatedness across time and species. I think an 8th or 9th grader would just be bursting with interest about such a presentation.
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