Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (850 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0012OMF6A |
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| Number of Pages | : | 203 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Creation of the Universe and Humanity - From Sea to Land - From Hominidae to Homo sapiens sapiens - Your Inner Fishby Neil Shubi Neil Shubin Stated:"We all know the Darwin fish, the car-bumper send-up of the Christian "ichthys" symbol, or Jesus fish. Unlike the Christian symbol, the Darwin fish has, you know, legs. Har har. But the Darwin fish isn't merely a clever joke; in effect, it contains a testable scientific prediction. If evol. Charting the progression of life leading to the human body University of Chicago paleontologist / anatomist, Neil Shubin, charts the progression of life that ultimately leads to the human body. Professor Shubin’s discovery of one of the earliest fish (the Tiktaalik) to survive at the fringes of land makes him well placed to delve into this topic. The book does. "The book is perhaps at its best in its discussion of the role of DNA in" according to Sam. The book is perhaps at its best in its discussion of the role of DNA in evolution. It is now known that it is possible to turn on a gene that is responsible for the development of an eye, for example. So you can create a fruitfly with an eye almost anywhere you want--such as on a leg--and many of these are f
One of Shubin's groundbreaking discoveries, only a year and a half ago, was the unearthing of a fish with elbows and a neck, a long-sought evolutionary "missing link" between creatures of the sea and land-dwellers.My own mother was a surgeon and a comparative anatomist, and she drummed it into me, and into all of her students, that our own anatomy is unintelligible without a knowledge of its evolutionary origins and precursors. That discovery and my foray into teaching human anatomy led me to a profound connection. Why? The best roadmaps to human bodies lie in the bodies of other animals. Your Inner Fish is my favorite sort of book--an intelligent, exhilarating, and compelling scientific adventure story, one which will change forever how you understand what it means to be human.The field of evolutionary biology is just beginning an exciting ne
The basis for the PBS series. By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.. Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik<