Almost Like a Whale
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Steve Jones' book Almost like a Whale 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.
The sub title is: the origin of species updated. It was first published in London and New York by Doubleday in 1999 with ISBN 0385409850. An American version was published as Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated.
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.