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

By:

Shubin, Neil

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2009.Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: 237 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:

9780307277459

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

611 22

LOC classification:

QM26 .S58 2009

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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Library	61x-2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	17/12/2025	AT-ISTA#003265

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.

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.