![]() ![]() While looking for ancient human fossils, he found instead a treasure of dinosaur and mammal fossils. ![]() Roy Chapman Andrews led an expedition into the Gobi desert in Mongolia in the 1920's. Then come some fascinating chapters about paleontologists, like Charles Walcott who discovered the remarkable Burgess Shale. When Humboldt visited the United States, he visited the president, Thomas Jefferson and talked about science, not politics! The first chaptera are about the adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace, and Henry Bates and their subsequent analyses of findings. Most chapters follow a naturalist into the wilds. He is also a professor of molecular biology, and his previous books have been excellent, too. This is a wonderful book about naturalists and their adventures in search for the origin of species. ![]()
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