3.500 millones de años de historia del cuerpo humano
In April 2006, Neil Shubin and his team made headlines in the world when they unveiled Tiktaalik, a 375 million-year-old limb-limb fossil fish, the missing link between the ancient sea creatures and the first creatures to start walking on land. Their fossil discoveries have changed the way we understood many of the key transitions in species evolution.
In Your Inner Fish (2008), Shubin develops the great evolutionary transformations with a unique perspective. Showing the extraordinary impact that the 3.5 billion years of life history have had on the human body, it answers basic questions that we often ask ourselves: why do we look so much alike inside? How did we get to that resemblance? To understand this we do not need to direct fossil expeditions in the Gobi desert or North Africa, just compare our skeletons, organs and genes. When compared to animals, plants, fungi and micr...read more
