Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard it before. 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.

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• The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
• Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
• In the Shadow of Man
• Into The Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution (Cambridge Reference Book)
• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
• The Diversity of Life: With a New Preface (Questions of Science)
• Evolutionary Analysis (5th Edition)
• Spilling Clarence