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

DetailsonaMajorNewDiscoveryincludedinaNewAfterwordWhydowelookthewaywedo?NeilShubin,thepaleontologistandprofessorofanatomywhoco-discoveredTiktaalik,the“fishwithhands,”tellsthestoryofourbodiesasyou'veneverhearditbefore.ByexaminingfossilsandDNA,heshowsusthatourhandsactuallyresemblefishfins,ourheadsareorganizedlikelong-extinctjawlessfish,andmajorpartsofourgenomeslookandfunctionlikethoseofwormsandbacteria.YourInnerFishmakesuslookatourselvesandourworldinanilluminatingnewlight.Thisissciencewritingatitsfinest—enlightening,accessibleandtoldwithirresistibleenthusiasm.