Almost Like a Whale
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Template:Short description Template:Infobox book Almost like a Whale by Steve Jones is a modern introduction to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and closely follows its structure.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It won the 1999 BP Natural World Book Prize.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
An American version was published as Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated (Template:ISBN).
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.