Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Details on a Major New Discovery included in a New AfterwordWhy do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard it before. By examining fossils and DNA, he...
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Details on a Major New Discovery included in a New AfterwordWhy do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard it before. By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307277459 (0307277453)
ASIN: 0307277453
Publish date: 2009-01-06
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Popular Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Biology,
Animals,
Anthropology,
Evolution
Neil Shubin is a paleontologist who spent years teaching anatomy to medical students. His combined background in ancient fossils and human anatomy gives him a unique perspective on the evolution of the human body, both its wonders and its flaws. Shubin's view of the human body is like a car that has...
This book started out slow for me, but I grew to like it more and more as I went on. Shubin's boyish sense of humor asserted itself in the latter parts of the book, to my delight. The book is very easy to understand, so much so that I would unreservedly recommend it to any bright middle schooler who...