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| Title | : | Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body |
| Author | : | Neil Shubin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 229 pages |
| Published | : | January 15th 2008 by Pantheon Books |
| Categories | : | Science. Nonfiction. Biology. Evolution. History |
Neil Shubin
Hardcover | Pages: 229 pages Rating: 4 | 20540 Users | 1416 Reviews
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Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish. 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. Shubin makes us see ourselves and our world in a completely new light. Your Inner Fish is science writing at its finest-enlightening, accessible, and told with irresistible enthusiasm.Declare Books During Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
| Original Title: | Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body |
| ISBN: | 0375424474 (ISBN13: 9780375424472) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | National Academies of Sciences Book Award (2009), Society of Midland Authors Award for Adult Nonfiction (2009), Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (2008) |
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For those who enjoyed the writings of paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, Steven Jay Gould, here is another master in communicating complex science to the lay person. Neil Shubin has the smarts, the skills, the enthusiasm and the insights to enlighten us on the manner in which we humans are part of the world's amazing collection of life forms past and present.Gould taught at Harvard and was associated with the American Museum of Natural History. In remarkable parallel construction, Shubin
If you have a semi-extensive science background, you'll probably find this book annoyingly vague. Lots of handwaving, little in the way of explanatory detail.If you're a fan of well-written scientific prose, you'll definitely be driven around the bend. The author was chosen to write this book because he made a terrific discovery in northern Canada a few years back -- a key missing link between fish and mammals -- not because he can write his way out of a wet paper bag. Each chapter lunges hither
I knew about this book from Trevor's review some time ago. I saw it in the Bibliography of some of Dawkins' books and it that of Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne which I recently read, and I got interested to read it very soon. It is truly a remarkable work. If not for anything, just because it shows how evolution can be very helpful in making advances in Medicine. Neil Shubin, who is very well versed in Comparative Anatomy, shows how certain parts of our body can only be understood in
A fascinating book to read to learn about how life on earth is related to each other for one simple reason: we are all descended from one common ancestor. Changes may have occurred as all life on Earth branched out from that common ancestor but you can still trace that common lineage between us all; even between humans and fish.Shubin is best known for discovering Tiktaalik but he uses his other experiences (searching for other fossils, teaching human anatomy, running a lab that explores both
I rarely read anything on biology, paleontology, natural history or evolution, whether in book form or in magazine articles, and my review is going to reflect that. So those readers who are au courant with those subjects (and even Shubin's book is probably aging quickly) will likely find that other reviews will address their questions about this book better than mine. I don't make any claim to being able to dispute Neil Shubin on any point he makes, nor argue any of his conclusions. I might as
Remarkable, from which most different components of other kinds human is composed Please note that I put the original German text at the end of this review. Just if you might be interested.Another big banner for evolutionists' advocates is the fact that Shubin's brilliant work contrasts with the confused theses of the Creationists. The discoverer of a link between land creatures and fish uses numerous examples to show how, in the course of the development of higher life forms, several
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