| Almost Like a Whale : The Origin of Species Updated | |
| Author: | Steve Jones |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | On the Origin of Species |
| Publisher: | Doubleday |
| Pub Date: | 1999 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages: | 402 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-385-40985-8 |
| Dewey: | 576.8 21 |
| Congress: | QH367 .J75 1999 |
| Oclc: | 41420544 |
Almost like a Whale by Steve Jones is a modern introduction to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and closely follows its structure.[1] [2] It won the 1999 BP Natural World Book Prize.[3]
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.