![]() ![]() The author of ''The Bone Wars,'' a novel about the early paleontologists, depicts here, and Whitney Powell's drawing shows us, for instance, a stunned and distracted Raymond Dart standing half dressed for a wedding in 1924. While some works perpetuate the notion that science is a stern catalogue of facts, this story of fossilized bones, of Homo habilis children dreaming of stone tools, of scientists hugging and laughing under an Ethiopian sun, positively brims over with that sense of wonder and mystery and discovery.Īs Kathryn Lasky leads her audience into the world of paleoanthropologists, she manages to humanize the scientists. In ''Traces of Life,'' which is about the search for evidence of our own evolutionary predecessors, we have a shining example of what science books for young readers can be. ![]()
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