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title: "Almost Like a Whale"
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Almost like a Whale by Steve Jones is a modern introduction to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and closely follows its structure. It won the 1999 BP Natural World Book Prize.
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.


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