Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body
Neil Shubin (Author)
Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik--the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006--tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria.--From publisher description
Print Book, English, 2009
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Vintage Books, New York, 2009
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237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
9780307277459, 0307277453
229026801
Finding your inner fish
Getting a grip
Handy genes
Teeth everywhere
Getting ahead
The best-laid (body) plans
Adventures in bodybuilding
Making scents
Vision
Ears
The meaning of it all
Epilogue
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2008