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

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

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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Author: Neil Shubin
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-15
ISBN: 0375424474
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Pantheon

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Book Review: The Story of Fossils and Geneology
Summary: 4 Stars

Through extensive fossil records and geneology, Mr. Shubin takes the reader through the development of single celled organisms (bacteria), multi-cell (jellyfish), bodies (worms), skull (fish), hands and feet (reptiles), three-boned middle ear (mammals), and finally, bipedal with large brain (humans).

We have in us anatomical design improvements that can take us only so far from our water borne ancestors. Mr. Shubin asserts if humans were designed from scratch, "we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."

If, like me, you have always wondered why the male scrotum tucks close to the body in chilling weather, "Your Inner Fish" is an excellent source.

Curiously, Mr. Shubin made no mention of how a Cro-Magnon was able to win the U.S. presidency twice; in 2000 and 2004.

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