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

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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Neil ShubinPublish date:2009-01-06Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307277459ISBN-10:307277453UPC:9780307277459Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life SciencesBook Topic:Human Anatomy & Physiology, EvolutionSize:8.00 x 5.48 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCSWXTT22B

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

The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the "fish with hands," tells a "compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human" (Oliver Sacks).

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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307277459ISBN-10:307277453UPC:9780307277459Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life SciencesBook Topic:Human Anatomy & Physiology, EvolutionSize:8.00 x 5.48 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCSWXTT22B

Neil Shubin is the author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, which was chosen by the National Academy of Sciences as the best book of the year in 2009. Trained at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley, Shubin is associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago. In 2011 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.


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