Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body / Neil Shubin

By: Shubin, Neil [author]Material type: TextTextEdition: First Vintage books editionDescription: 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmISBN: 9780307277459; 0307277453Subject(s): Human anatomy -- Popular works | Human evolution -- Popular works | Anatomy, Comparative | Biological Evolution | PhylogenyGenre/Form: Popular Work. | Popular works | Popular works. DDC classification: 611 LOC classification: QM26 | .S58 2009NLM classification: 2010 C-955 | QS 124
Contents:
Finding your 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
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 publisher description
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
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Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2008

Includes bibliographical references and index

Finding your 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

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 publisher description

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