Neil Shubin Bücher

Der Mensch ist ein Tier unter Tieren, Ergebnis einer Milliarde Jahre dauernden Evolution. Spuren und Reste dieser Entwicklung sind in unserem Körper aufbewahrt, in der Form unserer Knochen, der Struktur unserer DNA. Ein ganzer Zweig des Baum des Lebens ist tief in uns eingelassen. 'Der Fisch in uns' erzählt die spannende Geschichte, wie unser Körper so geworden ist, wie wir ihn kennen. Anhand neuester Ergebnisse aus Paläontologie und der vergleichenden DNA-Forschung schildert Neil Shubin anschaulich und packend die Evolution aus der Perspektive des menschlichen Körpers und zeigt ihren außerordentlichen Einfluss über 3,5 Milliarden Jahre. Dabei wird deutlich: Wir haben viel mehr mit Fischen, Würmern oder Bakterien gemeinsam, als uns bewusst ist.

Shubin describes how over the last half-century, scientists have been able to explore how genetic recipes build bodies during embryological development--how these inventions and adaptations occur in a nonprogressive manner in different contexts, at different speeds

During the past 13.7 billion years (or so) since the Big Bang, our universe has evolved, stars have formed and died and our planet congealed from the matter in space. In this title, the author reveals to us the extraordinary cosmic and evolutionary adventure of our own bodies.

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** 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. WITH BLACK-AND-WHITE LINE DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT