Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body
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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 eart... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Finding an inner fish
- Getting a grip
- Handy genes
- Teeth everywhere
- Getting ahead
- The best-laid (body) plans
- Adventures in bodybuilding
- Making scents
- Vision
- Ears
- The meaning of it all
- Epilogue.