Neil Shubin
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or inevitable. The great transformations in the history of life brought about whole scale shifts in how animals live and how their bodies are organized: the evolution of fish to land-living creature, the origin of birds,...
Author
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Just as the history of the Earth is written in the rocks, so too is the universe's fourteen-billion-year history recorded in the human body. Starting at the smallest level, with our very molecular composition, Neil Shubin explores the question of why we are the way we are, tracing the formation of the planets, the moon, and the globe of Earth itself through the development of the genes, cells, and organs that make up our bodies."--Page 4 of cover....
