Your Inner Fish - The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor

Informationen zum Autor Neil Shubin Klappentext Your Inner Fish tells the extraordinary history of the human body. Why do we look the way we do? When did we first evolve the features that we have? Why are we still able to do all the different things we do? And, finally, why do we fall ill in the way that we do? Neil Shubin draws on the latest genetic research and his huge experience as an expeditionary palaeontologist to show the incredible impact the 3.5 billion year history of life has had on our bodies. Zusammenfassung Tells the 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. This book reveals the secrets of our biology: why if we want to understand our limbs we should take a close look at Tiktaalik, the first fish capable of doing a push-up.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Shubin, Shubin Neil
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780141027586
• ISBN: 978-0-14-102758-6
• No. of pages: 237
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 193 g
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Evolution (Abstammungslehre), Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, MEDICAL / Anatomy, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Human biology