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Nature 457, 966 (19 February 2009) | doi:10.1038/457966a; Published online 18 February 2009
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In search of adventure
Neil Shubin1
BOOK REVIEWED-Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species
by Sean B. Carroll
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2009. 352 pp. £26
Most scientists have tried to explain their work to inquisitive relatives or acquaintances. Whether one studies salamander biology, glacial moraines or dark energy, one inevitably faces someone who is convinced that a life devoted to understanding nature is no vocation for a grown person and is merely an escape from the 'real world'.
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