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Your Inner Fish - The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor (Paperback)
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Your Inner Fish - The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor (Paperback)
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Loot Price R349
Discovery Miles 3 490
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Neil Shubin's 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.
Have you ever wondered why our bodies look and work and fail the
way they do? One of the world's leading experts in evolutionary
history, Neil Shubin reveals the secrets of our biology: why if we
want to understand our limbs we should take a close look at
Tiktaalik, the first fish capable of doing a push-up; why if we
want to know why we hiccup, the answer is in the way fish breathe;
and why it is that fish teeth are surprisingly similar to human
breasts. 'This would be Darwin's book of the year' Sunday Telegraph
'An intelligent, exhilarating, and compelling scientific adventure
story' Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a
Hat 'Delightful ... his enthusiasm is infectious' Steven D. Levitt,
author of Freakonomics 'Profoundly fascinating ... a magisterial
work ... expressed so clearly and with such good humour' Financial
Times 'Will make you think about your organs in ways you have never
considered before' Sunday Times 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.
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