Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin - ISBN: 9780141027586
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Your body’s secrets lie in ancient fish. Discover your origins.

Your Inner Fish

The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    13 February 2009

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Summary

Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish is the unexpected story of how one creature’s journey out of the water made the human body what it is today - and one man’s voyage of discovery in search of our origins.

Have you ever wondered why our bodies look and work and fail the way they do?

One of the world’s leading experts in evolutionary history, Neil Shubin reveals the secrets of our biology- why if we want to understand our limbs we should take a close look at Tiktaalik

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141027586
ISBN-10:0141027584
Author:Neil Shubin
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Edition:1st
Release Date:13 February 2009
Weight:92g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 16mm
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Critics Review

‘Profoundly fascinating !a magisterial work…if you want to understand the evolutionary history of man and other animals read this’ Financial Times ‘Stunning case histories!dazzling work … Shubin’s style is light and easygoing’ Guardian ‘Simple, passionate writing!a twenty-first-century anatomy lesson’ Nature ‘Fascinating!his conclusions take our history back to scarcely conceivable eras and forms’ New Statesman ‘A compelling evolutionary story… that unpacks the history of our bones’ New Scientist ‘An intelligent, exhilarating, and compelling scientific adventure story, one which will change forever how you understand what it means to be human’ Oliver Sacks

About The Author

Neil Shubin

Neil Shubin is a palaeontologist in the great tradition of his mentors, Ernst Mayr and Stephen Jay Gould. He has discovered fossils around the world that have changed the way we think about many of the key transitions in evolution and has pioneered a new synthesis of expeditionary palaeontology, developmental genetics and genomics. He trained at Columbia, Harvard and Berkeley and is currently Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Chicago.

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