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Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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Author:
Neil Shubin
Publisher:
Pantheon
Date:
March 17, 2020
The author of Your Inner Fish gives an account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth--a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that explains how the incredible diversity of life on our planet came to be.
What The Reviewers Say
Shubin shows himself to be a natural storyteller and a gifted scientific communicator.
... exhilarating.
In the end, the genetic constructions of all creatures are variations on a theme; we are all related. An engaging, must-read for anyone with an interest in evolution..
Making complex scientific ideas both accessible to and enjoyable for the general public is a rare skill, but one that Shubin has mastered in his eloquent survey.
