Your Inner Fish
A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
Published By: Pantheon, 2008
Genre: Nonfiction | History & Culture
Page Count: 256 (Paperback)
Audiobook Length: 6 hours and 59 minutes
Audiobook Narrator: Marc Cashman
ISBN: 9780274803927
Publisher’s Description
The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks).
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.
About the Author
NEIL SHUBIN is the author of Some Assembly Required, Your Inner Fish, and The Universe Within. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. He lives in Chicago.