![]() ![]() ![]() But he could have chosen any animal in the heritage line of mankind to make his point, as long as it was sufficiently far in the past (say 300 million years). He has a particular expertise in fish, that's the reason for the title. Your inner fish, what a great book this is!! Neil Shubin is a professor of paleontology, the study of old bones. How evolution does not lead to perfection. Your Inner Fish is science writing at its finest - enlightening, accessible, and told with irresistible enthusiasm. Shubin makes us see ourselves and our world in a completely new light. ![]() 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. 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. 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. ![]()
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