Almost Like a Whale

Almost Like a Whale : The Origin of Species Updated

Author	Steve Jones
Language	English
Subject	On the Origin of Species
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	1999
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	402
ISBN	978-0-385-40985-8
OCLC	41420544
Dewey Decimal	576.8 21
LC Class	QH367 .J75 1999

Almost like a Whale by Steve Jones is a modern introduction to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and closely follows its structure. ^{[1] [2]} It won the 1999 BP Natural World Book Prize. ^[3]

An American version was published as Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated ( ISBN   978-0-375-50103-6).

The title refers to Darwin's observation that a bear, swimming in a lake and catching insects in its mouth, might conceivably evolve over time into a creature "almost like a whale". This statement attracted much ridicule at the time.

References

1. Radford, Tim (2011). "Almost Like a Whale by Steve Jones – book review". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
2. Berry, Andrew. "Data Guy". London Review of Books. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
3. Almost like a whale: the origin of species updated. OCLC   41420544.