The release date for the English version of 'Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body' by
Neil Shubin is Jan 2008. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Why are we the way we are? What is the similarity between a fly's wing and the human hand? Are sweat glands, scales, and breasts related in any way? In order to get a deeper comprehension of the internal mechanisms of our bodies and uncover the causes of several prevalent illnesses in modern times, we must go to unlikely sources such as worms, flies, and fish.
The tale of evolution is told by Neil Shubin, a renowned paleontologist and anatomy professor who found Tiktaalik, the "missing link" that made headlines worldwide in April 2006. Shubin traces the human body's parts back millions of years, far before the first animals set foot on the planet. Shubin demonstrates to us via the study of fossils and DNA that our hands have a striking resemblance to fish fins, that the structure of our brain is similar to that of a long-gone jawless fish, and that large portions of our genome have features seen in bacteria and worms.
Shubin gives us a whole new perspective on both the world and ourselves. Science writing at its best may be found in Your Inner Fish; it is fascinating, approachable, and written with contagious passion.