Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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- Synopsis
- 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.ssible, and told with irresistible enthusiasm.From the Hardcover edition.
- Copyright:
- 2008
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 256 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307377166
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780307277459
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 05/28/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Neil Shubin
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.