Sean B. Carroll is professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His first book, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, was a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Carroll’s seminal scientific work has been featured in Time and The New Yorker. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Carroll (genetics, Univ. of Wisconsin; www.seanbcarroll.com), one of the pioneering scientists in the field of evolutional developmental biology, aka Evo Devo, is also the author of The Making of the Fittest, a 2006 LJ Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year. In this, his first book, a 2005 USA Today Top Popular Science Book of the Year, he tells the fascinating story of how scientists are unlocking the keys to animal evolution through embryonic development. Carroll does an admirable job of making this complex topic accessible to general readers, and Audie Award nominee Arthur Morey (Descent into Chaos) deftly delivers it to listeners' ears. Recommended for academic libraries with biology and genetics collections and large public libraries with customers interested in science. [Carroll's newest book, the 2009 National Book Award finalist Remarkable Creatures, is also available from Brilliance Audio.-Ed.]-Emma Duncan, Brampton Lib., Ont. Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.
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