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| Almost Like a Whale | 1/1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Like_a_Whale | reference | science, encyclopedia | 2026-05-05T08:29:53.025647+00:00 | kb-cron |
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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