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Your inner fish: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body/

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Your inner fish: / Neil Shubin ; [with a new afterword].
Reminder of title:	a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body/
Author:	Shubin, Neil.
Published:	New York: Vintage Books, : 2009,
[NT 15000922]:	1st Vintage Books ed.
Description:	237 p.: ill., maps, port.; : 21cm;
基督教聖經之智慧書導讀 :	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 publisher description.
Subject:	Phylogeny. -
ISBN:	9780307277459 (pbk.):

Your inner fish: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body/
Shubin, Neil.

Your inner fish: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body/ Neil Shubin ; [with a new afterword]. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York: Vintage Books, 2009 - 237 p.: ill., maps, port.; 21cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.

Finding your 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.

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 publisher description.

ISBN: 9780307277459 (pbk.): NT599

LCCN: 2009285945Subjects--Topical Terms:

323416
Phylogeny.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

478025
Popular Work.

National Library of Medicine Call No.: QS 124 / S562y 2009a

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