Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body / Neil Shubin.
Shubin, Neil.
2008
QM26 .S58 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body / Neil Shubin.
Author Shubin, Neil.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780375424472 (alk. paper)
0375424474 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
Language English
Description 229 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Call Number QM26 .S58 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 611
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 piblisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index.
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Finding an inner fish
Getting a grip
Handy genes
Teeth everywhere
Getting ahead
The best-laid (body) plans
Adventures in bodybuilding
Making scents
Vision
Ears
The meaning of it all
Epilogue.

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