Your Inner Fish

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• So who are you calling fish-face?

  Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin Allen Lane £20, pp229 There has never been a shortage of jokes about the moral inadequacies of the legal profession. Take this golden offering: why do shark ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Nature the tinkerer

  Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin 229pp, Allen Lane, £20 The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B Carroll 288pp, Quercus, £15.99 Remember the ol ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  This is a science adventure story on several levels. First, if you look at the history of geology and paleontology, Shubin and his team made a pretty savvy guess that they might find a transitional fossil (where a fish found its way on land) at a particular corner of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian ... (continue)

  This is a science adventure story on several levels. First, if you look at the history of geology and paleontology, Shubin and his team made a pretty savvy guess that they might find a transitional fossil (where a fish found its way on land) at a particular corner of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. If you have to do your research with a rifle by your side to defend against living carnivores, that's an adventure too. And intellectually, it's exciting to see another piece in the evolutionary puzzle fall into place.

  This is the light and lively side of "Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates" (see elsewhere on my bookshelf).

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  Graet reading

  A book well written with a lot of information. A passionate description of the relationships between us (our body) and all the life that came before us (fish, worms, flies, ..).
  I wish "intelligent design" believers spend more time reading good books like this instead of wasting their time stud ... (continue)

  A book well written with a lot of information. A passionate description of the relationships between us (our body) and all the life that came before us (fish, worms, flies, ..).
  I wish "intelligent design" believers spend more time reading good books like this instead of wasting their time studying legends from the bronze age (aka bible).

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  Franco Folini said on Jun 12, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0307277453
• ISBN-13: 9780307277459
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Jan 06, 2009
• Dimensions: 1303 mm x 852 mm x 142 mm Just how big is that?

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