Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin Your AP Biology experience is going to start this summer with a book. This book is thought provoking. Read it slowly and analyze your thinking as you go. You may borrow the book from me, or you may choose to purchase it yourself. If you are one who likes to mark up their books, I would suggest you purchasing the book. Download Your Inner Fish ebook for free in pdf and ePub Format. Your Inner Fish also available in format docx and mobi. Read Your Inner Fish online, read in mobile or Kindle.
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
Start by marking “Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body” as Want to Read:
Rate this book
See a Problem?
We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin.
Oliver Sacks on Your Inner Fish Since the 1970 publication of Migraine, neurologist Oliver Sacks's unusual and fascinating case histories of 'differently brained' people and phenomena-a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome, a community of people born totally colorblind, musical hallucinations, to name a few-have been marked by extraordinary compassion and humanity, focusing on the patient as. Identifier Your.Inner.Fish-Documentary Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t74t9b11q Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.5.2. Get the entire Your Inner Fish LitChart as a printable PDF. 'My students can't get enough of your charts and their results have gone through the roof.' CHAPTER ONE FINDING YOUR INNER FISH Typical summers of my adult life are spent in snow and sleet, cracking rocks on cliffs well north of the Arctic Circle. Most of the time I freeze, get blisters, and find absolutely.
Not the book you’re looking for?Preview — Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish.
Neil Shubin, a leading paleontolo..more
Neil Shubin, a leading paleontolo..more
Published January 15th 2008 by Pantheon Books
To see what your friends thought of this book,please sign up.
To ask other readers questions aboutYour Inner Fish,please sign up.
Popular Answered Questions
- 1 like · like
Cheryl Larsonده يو من إس إت ول documented؟ ث أثر سيمس نسردبل سكنك بسد.
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only 1,452 books — 3,204 voters
Best Books on Evolution.. 241 books — 174 voters
More lists with this book..
Rating details
|
Mar 18, 2011Will Byrnes rated it it was amazing
How are embryos like fossils? How did we come to have the hands, arms, heads, bone structures, ears, eyes and many of the other parts we have? It turns out that homo sap is a very jury-rigged critter, an accumulation of biological compromises and re-purposed parts. One can look at fossils to see how we got from there, waaaay back there, to here, and one can also find, in comparing embryos of different species, evidence of our developmental history. DNA tells tales. Neil Shubin follows both paths..more
Jul 02, 2008Trevor rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This really was a pleasure – another book recommended by Wendy – although what I liked most about it was possibly not the most obvious things about the book. From very early on I was in a bit of a world of my own and had started to wonder what to make of the fact that palaeontologists tend to make such wonderful science writers?
I’ve said it before, but I think Gould is a better writer than Dawkins – and that is a big statement for me, as I tend to prefer an English voice over an American one. I..more
I’ve said it before, but I think Gould is a better writer than Dawkins – and that is a big statement for me, as I tend to prefer an English voice over an American one. I..more
Aug 24, 2019☘Misericordia☘ ~ The Serendipity Aegis ~ ⚡ϟ⚡ϟ⚡⛈ ✺❂❤❣ rated it it was amazing
My inner fish hails the author!
This fish, tiktaalik, of course, it was more than fish! It could do push-ups!
This fish, tiktaalik, of course, it was more than fish! It could do push-ups!
Nov 07, 2007Katherine Furman rated it it was amazing
This book delivered exactly what I wanted: an explanation of evolution from fish (and before really) to man in layman's terms, but not moron layman--well-spoken layman. I had so many 'ah-ha!' moments while reading this book that my head began to spin a little, but in a good way. For instance, when I used to think about evolution the hardest part for me to wrap my mind around was the slow progress of body parts morphing from one form to the next. What this book enlightened me to was that it's not..more
Aug 08, 2015Michael rated it liked it Shelves: evolution, science, biology, non-fiction
It was refreshing to see recent (and not so recent) discoveries about evolution of the body and brain put into an accessible book. My medium rating reflects the limited impact I got from the book due to a former career in developmental neurobiology and past reading of inspired writing on evolution from the likes of Gould, Dawkins, and Wilson. Still it’s sexy and cool to hear about how structures evolved for one purpose get adapted for new functions when opportunities for expansion of life emerge..more
If you have a semi-extensive science background, you'll probably find this book annoyingly vague. Lots of handwaving, little in the way of explanatory detail.
If you're a fan of well-written scientific prose, you'll definitely be driven around the bend. The author was chosen to write this book because he made a terrific discovery in northern Canada a few years back -- a key missing link between fish and mammals -- not because he can write his way out of a wet paper bag. Each chapter lunges hither..more
If you're a fan of well-written scientific prose, you'll definitely be driven around the bend. The author was chosen to write this book because he made a terrific discovery in northern Canada a few years back -- a key missing link between fish and mammals -- not because he can write his way out of a wet paper bag. Each chapter lunges hither..more
Oct 07, 2013Max rated it really liked it
Your Inner Fish presents simply and straightforwardly a view of life that shows how much we are a part of this world no matter how much we want to think we are above it. Shubin’s easy going style with fascinating details is very engaging. Beyond the structural and developmental similarities of different species outlined in the book, most compelling were the discussions of placing a gene from one species in the embryo of another that seems distantly related. The results were startling. For exampl..more
Apr 25, 2009Nate rated it liked it · review of another edition
There are lots of titles out there in American bookstores that see the need to defend the idea of evolution from the claims of creationism and intelligent design. But this book is not one of them. Shubin assumes that you accept evolution to be a fact about the world and gets on with it. He is a fish paleontologist who teaches anatomy to first year medical students at the University of Chicago. If that sounds strange, it won’t so much after you’ve read his book. Paleontology and comparative anato..more
Sep 07, 2007Kapi rated it it was amazing
Update 12/2009: Shubin and I have just released 40 figures in this book as a deck of PowerPoint slides with the hopes that educators across the country will be able to use them in their lectures on evolution and biology. They're available for free on the Tiktaalik website: http://tiktaalik.uchicago.edu/book-to.. Hope they're useful!
Review from 12/2007: Keep an eye out for this book's release in January of 2008. I worked extensively with the author while he was writing it, and was constantly ent..more
Review from 12/2007: Keep an eye out for this book's release in January of 2008. I worked extensively with the author while he was writing it, and was constantly ent..more
For those who enjoyed the writings of paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, Steven Jay Gould, here is another master in communicating complex science to the lay person. Neil Shubin has the smarts, the skills, the enthusiasm and the insights to enlighten us on the manner in which we humans are part of the world's amazing collection of life forms past and present.
Gould taught at Harvard and was associated with the American Museum of Natural History. In remarkable parallel construction, Shubin..more
Gould taught at Harvard and was associated with the American Museum of Natural History. In remarkable parallel construction, Shubin..more
Sep 13, 2016Emma Sea rated it it was amazing
This is a really nice introductory book on the clues that allow us to trace our decent from single-celled bacteria. It's a good companion to David Attenborough's Rise of the Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates.
https://youtu.be/o5Z4mPQBjqA
Would suit high-school-aged readers as well as adults who haven't read on the topic before.
For followup and more in-depth reading I recommend The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
https://youtu.be/o5Z4mPQBjqA
Would suit high-school-aged readers as well as adults who haven't read on the topic before.
For followup and more in-depth reading I recommend The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
Mar 29, 2011Cindy rated it really liked it
I really enjoyed this exploration into our human body and how it reveals pieces of our evolutionary ancestors.
You certainly don't need a science degree or much of a biology background at all to follow the steps from gills to ears or larynx. I would have appreciated more detail and a little less hand waving, but that's my inner scientist showing through.
He had a very detailed bibliography, with not just titles he drew on and others to explore, but commentary on why they might be useful. I love a..more
You certainly don't need a science degree or much of a biology background at all to follow the steps from gills to ears or larynx. I would have appreciated more detail and a little less hand waving, but that's my inner scientist showing through.
He had a very detailed bibliography, with not just titles he drew on and others to explore, but commentary on why they might be useful. I love a..more
As a first step through Darwinism , Your inner fish is an ideal beginning . Paleoantological , anatomical , embryological and genetic features supporting evolution are fluently presented through the book . My academic knowledge helped me a lot but were a reason as well for a brainstorm to start , for Shubin's explanations were sometimes very superficials or maybe too simplified . That is why I must read more and more about evolution in order to decipher , perfectly , the answer of a questio..more
Oct 30, 2011Karl-O rated it really liked itRecommends it for: Everyone interested in Evolution
Shelves: evolution, non-fiction
I knew about this book from Trevor's review some time ago. I saw it in the Bibliography of some of Dawkins' books and it that of Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne which I recently read, and I got interested to read it very soon. It is truly a remarkable work. If not for anything, just because it shows how evolution can be very helpful in making advances in Medicine. Neil Shubin, who is very well versed in Comparative Anatomy, shows how certain parts of our body can only be understood in li..more
Feb 24, 2012Magila rated it it was ok
I threw in the towel with this book about half way through. I found it to be dull, and missing a voice. It feels mostly as if the author is trying to convince his audience that evolution is real. It's written part to the layperson, part to the scientist or student, it's neither a textbook not a successful popular work to me. I love scientific books, and could point folks to a few which I believe were amongst the best that I read in the last year or two, but this book just misses the mark.
I woul..more
I woul..more
Nov 03, 2012Lois Bujold rated it it was amazing
I read this a few years back, but was reminded of it by the inclusion of its author and materials on the PBS DVD 'What Darwin Never Knew' (2009), which I caught belatedly tonight. Excellent science writing by the actual practitioner -- highly recommended. Shubin describes his search for the fossil fish that represents the first proto-quadrupeds on land; later, the discovery is backed up and deepened by a directed search for the genes and their mechanisms that made the differences.
Ta, L.
Ta, L.
Feb 26, 2019Ram rated it it was amazing
Anatomist Neil Shubin shows us in this book how our body evolved into the amazing and complicated machine it is. Using fossils, genes and embryos, we are introduced to the origin of our body parts and systems tracing them back to ancient fish, reptiles and primates.
The book is easy to read and provides adequate explanations that are both interesting and understandable.
I found the book fascinating and easy to read, and not too long.
The book is easy to read and provides adequate explanations that are both interesting and understandable.
I found the book fascinating and easy to read, and not too long.
Feb 12, 2012Tanja Berg rated it liked it · review of another edition
The reason I read this type of book is to learn something new, or preferably, a whole set of new things. The book gets a star deduction for not bringing any novel concepts into my world view. It is however a perfectly readable, concise book which traces our organs back through time and their origins in simpler creatures. A mix of fascinating fact and mindnumbing detail.
Aug 18, 2008Kay rated it liked it
I feel bad not giving this book a higher rating. Heaven knows we can use more books that explain complex scientific material to the general public. Gifted writers such as Jonathan Weiner (The Beak of the Finch), David Quammen (The Flight of the Iguana), and Gilbert Waldbauer (Insects through the Seasons) have expanded my own intellectual horizons considerably, simultaneously educating and entertaining. Alas, I can’t in good conscience place Neil Shubin’s book in the same league. It read more l..more
When I was a kid, I loved to read the non-fiction books of Issac Asimov.
I was fascinated by how things worked, be they natural of something man-made and Asimov wrote to inform the layman like me of the wonders of everything from physics to biology (and even the Bible).
Once I worked as a lowly night janitor in a Bell Telephone office. I couldn't wait for my lunch hour to run to the basement, pull up a chair and dig into what Asimov had to say on the structure of the atom and how electricity worke..more
Oct 27, 2017Kam Yung Soh rated it it was amazingI was fascinated by how things worked, be they natural of something man-made and Asimov wrote to inform the layman like me of the wonders of everything from physics to biology (and even the Bible).
Once I worked as a lowly night janitor in a Bell Telephone office. I couldn't wait for my lunch hour to run to the basement, pull up a chair and dig into what Asimov had to say on the structure of the atom and how electricity worke..more
Shelves: biology, reference, nature, science, paleontology
A fascinating book to read to learn about how life on earth is related to each other for one simple reason: we are all descended from one common ancestor. Changes may have occurred as all life on Earth branched out from that common ancestor but you can still trace that common lineage between us all; even between humans and fish.
Shubin is best known for discovering Tiktaalik but he uses his other experiences (searching for other fossils, teaching human anatomy, running a lab that explores both pa..more
Shubin is best known for discovering Tiktaalik but he uses his other experiences (searching for other fossils, teaching human anatomy, running a lab that explores both pa..more
May 13, 2011David rated it really liked it
There are plenty of people writing reviews about this book detailing examples of what is covered in the book, but if you are on the fence about reading it, here is what the book offers: a basic overview of phylogenetics (specifically cladistics, which tries to use novel features to determine how species are related to each other), the natural history of several important innovations in the evolution of the body plan we share with other land-based vertebrates (birds, fish, mammals), and insight i..more
Apr 06, 2009Michael rated it really liked it
This is a very important book that not only updated my knowledge on the current state of comparative anatomy in relation to evolutionary biology but also kept me turning the pages in absolute fascination. I almost read it in one sitting because I couldn't bear to put it down. No one who reads this could possibly have any doubts about the relatedness of all of life or the fact that we carry the evolutionary history of more than just humans inside us. I found the writing style less than elegant, b..more
Sep 09, 2015Troy Blackford rated it really liked it
A unique perspective on anthropology, the real theme of this book is how we can learn about universals in chordate bodyplans by studying our ancestors. Fascinating stuff, and well told.
May 31, 2018Bryan 'goes on a bit too long' rated it really liked it Shelves: 2019-discards, books-i-read-in-2018, science-and-mathematics
I rarely read anything on biology, paleontology, natural history or evolution, whether in book form or in magazine articles, and my review is going to reflect that. So those readers who are au courant with those subjects (and even Shubin's book is probably aging quickly) will likely find that other reviews will address their questions about this book better than mine. I don't make any claim to being able to dispute Neil Shubin on any point he makes, nor argue any of his conclusions. I might as w..more
Apr 05, 2014Blair rated it it was amazing Shelves: science-evolution, zzz-own-on-paper, non-fiction-book-club
This well written book reveals how the human body is the product of a long process of evolution. While the content gives overwhelming evidence for the theory of evolution, he does not discuss, or even acknowledge, any notion of intelligent design or the existence of a Divine Designer. The facts are allowed to speak for themselves. He frequently includes personal stories of how he practices science. This book is science with personality.
It is often said, even by people who should know better, tha..more
Jul 02, 2014Victor Sonkin rated it really liked itIt is often said, even by people who should know better, tha..more
Shelves: 20th-century, biology, nonfiction, 21st-century, memoir, american, anthropology, genetics, paleontology, oceanology
This is a book about your (our, my) inner fish — the evolutionary legacy of all creatures great and small in our bodies. The author brilliantly saddles the seemingly unbridgeable divide between field biology (paleontology, in his case, but of the most hardcore type, working for seasons on end in Arctic sleet or desert sands) and molecular biology; he is clever enough to point out that recent enthusiasm for all things molbio which were supposed to completely displace field disciplines was prematu..more
Oct 10, 2017Jason Schneeberger rated it it was amazing
This is undoubtedly one of the best books on evolution that I have read yet! I love that author Neil Shubin did not spend a great portion of the book discrediting creationism, in fact he didn't even MENTION creationism! As someone who fully believes in evolution instead of creationism, this was very refreshing to not have to wade through chapter after chapter of arguments for evolution and against creationism, that I already happen to agree with.
Starting with Neil's co-discovery of the 350+ mil..more
Starting with Neil's co-discovery of the 350+ mil..more
As a biologist I'm often amazed and dismayed when people talk about history and limit their thoughts to just the past few hundred or thousand or even hundred thousand years. There are living trees as old as human civilization. American history represents 1 ten-millionth of the history of life on earth. And the thing is, that entire timeline of life on earth matters. We were not human for much, much longer than we've been human and all that history is still inside us, affecting us in innumerable..more
Aug 09, 2015Dennis Swanger rated it really liked it
Your Inner Fish Pdf Free Online
Since Neil Shubin is a paleontologist, I thought this would be primarily a paleontology book, but it wasn't what I expected (I probably should have examined it more carefully in the bookstore). There are several 'stories' about the author's field work finding fossils which mark the 'transitions' between the major vertebrate groups, but the book's focus isn't field-oriented. Instead, it mostly concentrates on relating the structures and functions we find in humans, and other mammals, back to a sm..more
Your Inner Fish Pdf Free
topics | posts | views | last activity |
---|---|---|---|
Science Book Club:Your Inner Fish | 5 | 13 | Aug 24, 2019 01:34AM |
Summer Reading Reccomendation | 1 | 8 | Aug 15, 2016 07:29PM |
AP Bio reading | 3 | 12 | Sep 27, 2015 08:21AM |
Recommend It | Stats | Recent Status Updates
See similar books…
See top shelves…
Your Inner Fish Pdf Free Download
“In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.” — 15 likes
“We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.” — 15 likes
More quotes…