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Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, From Ancient Fossils to DNA - Neil Shubin (hardcover)

Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, From Ancient Fossils to DNA - Neil Shubin (hardcover)

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Neil Shubin is an evolutionary biologist whose research, discoveries, and publications have substantially furthered our understanding of human evolution. He is the co-discoverer of Tiktaalik roseae, an extinct fish whose lobed fins have wrist-like bones, perhaps an intermediate between fish and tetrapods (four-limbed animals). Shubin is one of our favorite authors at the Naturalist’s Notebook. His book “Your Inner Fish” helped inform our color-coded exploration of the history of earth. “Some Assembly Required” builds on his earlier titles, reviewing the foundations of evolution by natural selection and exploring paired fossil and DNA research that is working to answer some of science’s biggest questions about how life on Earth has developed, with particular attention to “leaps” of change in form and function. In short: "...biological innovations never come during the great transition they are associated with... Feathers did not arise during the evolution of flight, nor did lungs or limbs originate during the transition to land... these great revolutions in the history of life and others like them could never have happened otherwise. Major changes in the history of life did not have to wait for the simultaneous origins of many inventions. Massive change came about by repurposing ancient structures for new uses." Intrigued? In this book you’ll find the full story, with engaging studies and accounts of recent discoveries in the realm of evolutionary biology, from one of the scientists at the forefront. 267 pages.

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