01969cam a2200289 4500 545323820 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780465069767 0465069762 1dfb4963-7ef5-4d16-aaca-1f5b3c42d457 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1274011 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib de Queiroz, Alan. The Monkey's Voyage [Libby] : How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life. Basic Books, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 20MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:How did species wind up where they are today? Scientists have long conjectured that plants and animals dispersed throughout the world by drifting on large landmasses as they broke up, but in <i>The Monkey’s Voyage</i>, biologist Alan de Queiroz offers a radical new theory that displaces this passive view. He describes how species as diverse as monkeys, baobab trees, and burrowing lizards made incredible long-distance ocean crossings: pregnant animals and wind-blown plants rode rafts and icebergs and even stowed away on the legs of sea-going birds to create the map of life we see today. In the tradition of John McPhee's <i>Basin and Range</i> and David Quammen's <i>The Song of the Dodo</i>, <i>The Monkey’s Voyage</i> is a beautifully told narrative of a profound investigation into the importance of contingency in history and the nature of scientific discovery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/monkeys-voyage?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/monkeys-voyage?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)