Your inner fish
Subtitle: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body
By: By Neil Shubin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780375424472
Subjects: Human anatomy -- Popular works; Human evolution -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Finding an inner fish; title: Arms and legs, heads and teeth; title: Getting a grip; title: Handy genes; title: Teeth everywhere; title: Getting ahead; title: Bodies; title: The best laid (body) plans; title: Adventures in bodybuilding; title: Senses; title: Making scents; title: Vision quest; title: Our inner ear; title: The meaning of it all; title: The zoo in you; title: Why history makes us sick.