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Your Inner Fish
by Neil Shubin
Shubin finds Tiktaalik, the fish with wrists, and shows how our bodies carry 3.5 billion years of history: hiccups, hernias, hands. Delightful.
Read it if…
you want evolution written on your own body.
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Skip it if…
you want molecular biology.
Try instead: Some Assembly Required →
Three things you will actually use
- Your body is a fossil record.
- Hiccups are from fish.
- Look for the transitional.
Do this first
Read the chapter on finding Tiktaalik.
Our verdict
Shubin's fish.
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