Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
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Author: Neil ShubinEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-15
ISBN: 0375424474
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Pantheon
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Book Review: "The connection among living creatures runs deep."
Summary: 5 Stars
Shubin's _Your Inner Fish_ caught my attention as I was browsing for books on paleobiology. A paleobiologist at the University of Chicago by training (a Professor of Anatomy by accident), and a co-discoverer of a Devonian link between fish and amphibians, Shubin provides a marvelous introduction to both paleology and evolutionary biology.
For those with a strong scientific background, I am sure much of what Shubin covers is old news. For a non-scientist, the information (and its presentation) was brilliant. _Your Inner Fish is written in langauge that is easy to understand, demonstrating micobiological developments in layman's terms, and lucidly explaining how paleobiologists (and taxonomists) arrive at the conclusions they do regarding nature's distant ancestors and the vast genetic interconnectedness of life. As an added bonus, a number of Nobel-Prize winning experiments in biology were discussed, with an explaination to their importance to broader science.
As with any scientific book written for the masses, there are bones to be picked. (No pun intended.) As a member of the scientifically uninitiated, I was fascinated with his presentation of how paleontologists know where to dig (no, its not just guess-work), and how evolutionary biologists structure their experiments in seeking to learn how (and where) our genetic structure branched out and well, evolved.
Highly recommended for arm-chair scientists and those with an interest in (and a lack of training in) paleobiology or evolutionary biology. Those with previous training or exposure (at 200-level course work or above), I suspect this would be repetitive.
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