Fishy beginnings.(Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body )(Book review) From: Science & Spirit | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: Jacquet, Jennifer | COPYRIGHT 2008 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body Neil Shubin Pantheon, 2008 240 pages. $24.00

Small changes. Big time. That is the simple recipe for how we got here. The details make for a far more interesting story. Told as a half-anatomical, half-geological ('and fully humbling) tale by Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish presents the sordid history of human physiology from our unicellular past to our present complexity.

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