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Book notes: The evolution debate
By Colette Bancroft, Times book editor
Published January 27, 2008
With a vote coming up in February by the Florida Board of Education on whether to teach creationism in science classes, here's a little homework. Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science (National Geographic), by Phillip Manning, details the remarkable discovery of a 65-million-year-old mummified hadrosaur and the wealth of information about the past it revealed. Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA (Prometheus Books), by Daniel J. Fairbanks, employs cutting-edge technology to examine what new understanding of the human genome tells us about our relationships to other species. Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Pantheon), by Neil Shubin, brings together new discoveries in paleontology (including a plethora of not-so-missing links) to show how, for example, human teeth and breasts are related to fish scales.
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