Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor

ISBN-13: 9780141027586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str.

Neil Shubin

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Have you ever wondered why our bodies look and work and fail the way they do? 'Your Inner Fish' is the unexpected story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body what it is today - and one man's voyage of discovery in search of our origins.

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Neil Shubin is a palaeontologist in the great tradition of his mentors, Ernst Mayr and Stephen Jay Gould. He has discovered fossils around the world that have changed the way we think about many of the key transitions in evolution and has pioneered a new synthesis of expeditionary palaeontology, developmental genetics and genomics. He trained at Columbia, Harvard and Berkeley and is currently Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Chicago.