Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body / Neil Shubin.
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)
0375424474 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.