The Universe Within The Deep History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

eBook - 2013

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us? In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human bodies—our hands, heads, and jaws—and the structures in fish and worms that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. In The Universe Within, with his trademark clarity and exuberance, Shubin takes an even more expansive approach to the question of why we look the way we do. Starting once again with fossils, he turns his gaze skyward, showing us how t...he entirety of the universe’s fourteen-billion-year history can be seen in our bodies. As he moves from our very molecular composition (a result of stellar events at...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Neil Shubin
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Kindle Book
ASINB008LMD8PI
Release Date1/8/2013
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307907868
Release Date1/8/2013