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Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
Pantheon
January 2013
On Sale: January 8, 2013
240 pages
ISBN: 0307378438
EAN: 9780307378439
Kindle: B008LMD8PI
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WITH BLACK-AND-WHITE LINE DRAWINGS
THROUGHOUT
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 the 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 the origin of our solar system) through
the workings of our eyes, Shubin makes clear how the
evolution of the cosmos has profoundly marked our own bodies.
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