| Into The Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution |  | Author: Sean B. Carroll
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
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ISBN: 0321556712
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Publication Date: October 4, 2008
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Sean B. Carroll'sInto the Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution brings the science of evolution to biology students at any level, regardless of their college major or career path. Each of the nine stories in this brief reader chronicles the dramatic adventures of an influential zoologist, geologist, paleontologist, or geneticist on their path to some of the most important discoveries that have shaped our understanding of how life has evolved. Into The Jungle features these explorers: Charles Darwin (around the world voyage,The Origin of Species, Chapter 1) Alfred Wallace (voyages to Amazon and Indonesia, The Wallace Line, Chapter 2) Henry Walter Bates (mimicry as evidence of natural selection, Chapter 3) Eugene Dubois (the "missing link" ape-man in Java, Chapter 4) Roy Chapman Andrews (dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert, Chapter 5) Walter and Luis Alvarez (K-T asteroid extinction theory, Chapter 6) Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (coelacanth in South Africa, Chapter 7) Tony Allison (link between sickle cell and malaria resistance in Africa, Chapter 8) Ditlef Rustad and Arthur DeVries (loss of red blood cells and evolution of antifreeze in Antarctic fish, Chapter 9) A Companion Website at www.aw-bc.com/carroll includes electronic files of original journal articles reporting key discoveries described in the book, questions to aid the analysis and discussion of these articles, additional photos, hyperlinks to websites of additional sources, and PowerPoint(R) lecture slides.
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Collection of Short Stories about People November 29, 2009
electron0511 (Blacksburg, VA)
Each chapter of this book is an independent story about some person who made important discoveries that contributed to our understanding of evolution. The list includes Darwin and Wallace (of course), and less-known individuals such as Roy Chapman Andrews who was the model of Indiana Jones. Each chapter is fairly short, about 20 pages on average, and do not have to be read in sequence, so you can just open the book to a random page and start reading. Excellent book to have when you need something that can be read in a relatively short time. The focus of each chapter is more on the person than his/her science so if you want a deeper understanding of evolutionary science, you should read the other books by the same author, namely The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution and Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo. If you are not particularly interested in people, then you will probably find this book boring.
Good book but beware of overlaps June 3, 2009
Jeff Price
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I purchased this book when recommended by Amazon after purchasing Remarkable Creatures by the same author. WARNING - the chapters in the two books substantially overlap! You are only getting two different chapters. While these chapters are interesting, they do not merit the overlap. Amazon should cease to push these two books together to their customers.
First too easy, then too hard March 18, 2009
A. Rehm (Boston)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Here's the weird thing about this book: at first it's clearly aimed at, like, ninth-graders; he's practically writing in Simple English for the first few chapters. It's a little annoying because I'm all grown up and stuff but it's okay. But the thing is by the end, he's done a total 180 and suddenly I have no idea what he's talking about. Here's a random sentence from the second-to-last chapter:
"In 1957, it was finally determined that HbS differed from HbA at just one amino acid, a valine in place of glutamic acid."
I don't know what a valine is and he's not going to tell me.
So I dunno, man, first it's too easy and then it's too hard. Four stars, though, because the middle part is just right.
 Robert Paul Malchow January 23, 2009
Robert P. Malchow (Chicago)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book "Into the Jungle" by Sean Carroll is simply an absolute delight to read. It brings excitement, life and humanity back to the scientific endeavors that led to our appreciation of the importance of evolution. Carroll makes clear that these were truly exciting adventures undertaken by vibrant and sometimes quirky characters whose colorful lives bring the subject truly to life.
Each chapter focuses on the adventures of a different individual - Darwin in the first (of course), followed by Wallace, Bates, Dubois with his Java man, Chapman and his amazing excursion for fossils to China, the Alvarezes and the asteroid impact theory of extinction, Courtenay-Latimer & Smith of coelacanth fame, Tony Allison & the safari to examine the sickle-cell gene story, and last, DeVries and others associated with the ice fish phenomenon.
And adventures they have indeed. The stories are told in a delightfully vivid prose that makes the individuals and the times they lived in really come alive. All this while still having each chapter point out the scientific impact of each of these unique adventures.
At the end of each chapter are 3-5 questions that would require a few sentences to answer. This has made it simply ideal as an adjunct to a course in Introductory Biology. Students in our Honors Program often look for something to supplement their course work during the semester; I point them to this easy to read text and ask them to read the book and hand in a copy of the answers to the questions for each chapter each week and discuss briefly what they have read.
The book is a light an enjoyable read - I simply couldn't put it down. Don't expect extremely detailed and dry analyses of evolutionary theory and data. Rather, expect an adventure!
Robert Paul Malchow, Ph.D.
 Don't know how to rate this one October 24, 2008
G. Goldwater (Seattle, Washington)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
Sean Carroll: brilliant evolutionary biologist and great author of "Making of the Fittest" [a must read]writes this book for what I'd guess is middle school students. Obviously, Carroll is a major league science popularizer. This book doesn't hook me, though. I don't know if it's just that I'm too old [52] and know the more detailed accounts of many of these stories. I'd like to hear from parents what their kids think of it.
The chapters have questions in the back like a textbook. So it feels like a "school book" [which turns me off as a pleasure reader]. And, in fact, it might work really well in that context...say one story a month throughout the school year.
What middle school book by Sean Carroll would I stand in line for? Explaining the DNA evidence of inter-relatedness across time and species. I think an 8th or 9th grader would just be bursting with interest about such a presentation.
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