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Some Assembly Required by Neil Shubin
Category: Science & Natural History
An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity. "Fossils, DNA, ...Show more
Some Assembly Required - Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin
Category: Science
The author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish gives us a brilliant, up-to-date account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth. Over billions of years, fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and ape-like primates changed into humans who walk on two ...Show more
The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure by Neil Shubin
Category: Science & Natural History
The Universe Within is a thrilling journey from today all the way back to the Big Bang, which shows the deep connections between the human body and the universe, from Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish. What links the birth of the moon to our body clocks? How did the creation of the Atlantic Ocean a ...Show more
The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure by Neil Shubin
Category: Science
In "The Universe Within", Neil Shubin, one of the world's leading experts, reveals to us the extraordinary cosmic and evolutionary adventure of our own bodies. During the past 13.7 billion years (or so) since the Big Bang, our universe has evolved, stars have formed and died and our planet congealed fro ...Show more
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Vintage
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 "fish with hands," tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard it before. By examining fossils and DNA, he shows u ...Show more
Your Inner Fish - A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
Category: Science
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 ...Show more
Your Inner Fish : A journey into the 3.5 billion-year history of the human body by Neil Shubin
Category: Science & Natural History
"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 genet ...Show more
Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery Of Our 375-Million-Year-Old Ances by Neil Shubin
Category: Science & Natural History
"Your Inner Fish" tells the extraordinary history of the human body and gives answers to some of the questions that only evolution can. Why do we look the way we do? Why are we 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 lat ...Show more
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