The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure

ISBN-13: 9780141041902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str.

Neil Shubin

Opis

In 'The Universe Within', Neil Shubin reveals the cosmic and evolutionary adventure of our own bodies. He shows that the one place where universe, solar system and planet merge is inside your body.

Recenzje

Shubin is not only a distinguished scientist, but a wonderfully lucid and elegant writer; he is an irrepressibly enthusiastic teacher ... a science writer of the first rank Oliver Sacks

O autorze

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 a Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.