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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body cover

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

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#1316 of 3,809 books · #113 in Science & Technology

Won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (2008). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the "fish with hands," tells the story of how 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. By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us these connections that bind us to the rest of the living world. 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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Publisher
Pantheon Books
ISBN-13
9780307377166
Topics
Evolutionary biologyHuman anatomyPaleontology

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