Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human BodyThe 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). |
Contents
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FOUR Teeth Everywhere | 60 |
SIX The BestLaid Body Plans | 97 |
SEVEN Adventures in Bodybuilding | 116 |
EIGHT Making Scents | 139 |
Notes References and Further Reading | 211 |
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Neil Shubin No preview available - 2009 |
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Acanthostega amphibians anatomy ancient Arctic biology blobs body plan bozos brain breathing build bodies cartilage cells CHAPTER chicken choanoflagellates Chuck collagen conodonts cranial nerves creatures Devonian different kinds discovery ear bones Ellesmere Island embryos Eusthenopteron evolution experiments eyes facial facial nerve family tree fingers flies fossil record frog genetic Genome gill arches head hiccups Hox genes human hyomandibula inner ear inner fish inside jellyfish land-living animals layers legs limbs living look mammalian mammals microbes middle ear million years old molecular molecules mouth move muscles mutation odor genes olfactory opsin organs origin ostracoderms paleontology patch of tissue pattern primitive receptor reptiles rocks sea anemone sharks Shubin similar single-celled skates skeleton skull smell Sonic hedgehog species sponges stapes structure teeth tetrapod thing Tiktaalik tiny tion tooth trigeminal tube vertebrate walk whole worms wrist