Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body /
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 walke...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2008]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Sample text Table of contents Contributor biographical information cover art Publisher description Additional Information at Google Books |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 229 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Awards: | Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award Winner |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780375424472 0375424474 9780307277459 0307277453 |