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Your Inner Fish

ISBN: 9780307277459 | 0307277453
Edition: 1st
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: Vintage
Pub. Date: 1/6/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria.--From publi... MORE
Prefacep. ix
Finding Your Inner Fishp. 3
Getting a Gripp. 28
Handy Genesp. 44
Teeth Everywherep. 60
Getting Aheadp. 81
The Best-Laid (Body) Plansp. 97
Adventures in Bodybuildingp. 116
Making Scentsp. 139
Visionp. 148
Earsp. 158
The Meaning of It All... MOREp. 173
Epiloguep. 199
Afterword to the Vintage Books Editionp. 203
Notes, References, and Further Readingp. 211
Acknowledgmentsp. 223
Indexp. 227
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NEIL SHUBIN is provost of The Field Museum as well as a professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as an associate dean. Educated at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley, he lives in Chicago.


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