Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Audiobook (Free)

Why carry out we look the way we do? What does the human hands have in common with the wing of the fly? Are breasts, perspiration glands, and scales linked in some way? To raised understand the internal workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of several of today’s most common diseases, we have to turn to unforeseen sources: worms, flies, and even fish.

Neil Shubin, a respected paleontologist and teacher of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik-the “missing hyperlink” that produced headlines all over the world in Apr 2006-tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of our body back millions of years, long before the 1st creatures walked the planet earth. By evaluating fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of the long-extinct jawless seafood, and major parts of our genome appearance and function like those of worms and bacteria.

Shubin makes us see ourselves and our world in a completely new light. YOUR INNER Seafood is science writing at its finest-enlightening, available, and told with irresistible passion.