Books by Sean B. Carroll
![Remarkable Creatures [With Earbuds] (2006)](/sean-b-carroll/remarkable-creatures-with-earbuds/cover)
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review 1: Hard to imagine a more readable book on the history of natural science than this one. Every chapter is a story from the last 150 years or so of natural science's explosive development, beginning of course with Darwin. Each story shares a similar archetype, and indeed, the book mo...
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review 1: This book was a fascinating window into the history of the scientists behind our current understanding of evolution. I teach high school biology, so I'll admit that the topic is pretty well-suited to my personal interests, but Carroll's writing is familiar enough and his treatme...
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review 1: This is an impressive book, mixing philosophy, literature and good old molecular biology. And all of this mixed with the Resistance in Paris during WW2 and spy-stories of the cold war. Before discovering this book I wasn't too aware of the contributions that Camus and Monod made ...