Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

In Your Inner FishNeil Shubin draws on the latest genetic research and his unrivalled experience as an expeditionary palaeontologist to show the incredible impact the 3.5 billion-year history of life has had on our bodies. Why do we look the way we do? When did we first evolve the features and capabilities that we now have and are they still of any use to us? Why do we fall ill in the way that we do? It turns out that many of out most distinctive features evolves when we were still swimming in the oceans. We all feel very familiar with our teeth, but do we understand that they originally evolved as body armour in shark-like fish 480 million years ago? And what about the historical connection between breasts, sweat glands and scales? Your Inner Fishcontains both stories of discovery and cutting edge science. As Shubin takes us on a fascinating, unexpected journey, he allows us to discover the deep connection to nature in our own bodies.