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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Published: Jan 2009
Genre: Science - Life Sciences - Evolution - Human
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 256
Details on a Major New Discovery included in a New AfterwordWhy do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the âfish with hands,â tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard it before. By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria.Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finestâenlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.