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Science and Creationism A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition (1999) / Chapter Skim
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... Johanson, Donald C., Lenora tohanson, and Blake Edgar 1994 Ancestors: In Search of Human Origins, Villard Books: New York. The companion volume to Johanson's NOVA series, "In Search of Human Origins." Mayr, Ernst 1991 One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA.
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... McNulty, Faith 1999 How Whales Walked into the Sea, Illustrated by Ted Lewin, Scholastic Trade: New York. This wonderfully illustrated book describes the evolution of whales from land mammals.
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