Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Posted by admin | Posted in pets | Posted on 06-03-2010
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- ISBN13: 9780307277459
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Details on a Major New Discovery included in a New Afterword
Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you’ve never heard it before. By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and funct… More >>
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
This could have been a fascinatingly informative book if it stuck to the finding of the fossil itself and its unique mosaic of features, like the present-day platypus and its mosaic of features. What kills this book’s getting a better rating is that it is yet one more Nova/Nat’l Geographic type sermon praising the theory of evolution. “This means that and thus it is so” mentality that so many evolutionists pummel us with ruins the best impact of fossil data in letting it speak for itself. Tiktaalik roseae doesn’t scream evolution nor does it dance the transitional fossil hype shuffle. It just is one heck of a unique critter that lived a LONNNNNGGGGGGG time ago before man walked the earth. Because it is a mosaic lifeform of features evolutionist went looking for with a paradigm in tow doesn’t make it what they say it appears to be. In the final analysis — it is a weird critter and no more. What Tiktaalik roseae definitely “gave rise to” was yet another evolutionist “happy dance” and no more. Wow! What a glorious diversity of life this planet has held & still offers! (researcher at Duke University)
Rating: 3 / 5
What a waste. Ok, if you know NOTHING about evolution or palentology, then this book might be acceptable but, otherwise, its a terrible bore. I got half way through and, finding nothing really new or interesting, I couldn’t justify finishing. Let me summarize the book for you and save you some money: people evolved from fish and thus there are similarities between us and fish. There you go. Save your money.
Not recommended.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’m very pleased with our order. The book arrived in mint condition. The shipping was a little slow, but it was worth the wait. Thank you. A great deal and a great purchase.
Rating: 5 / 5
The physical condition of this book is great. It is a good looking, well sized hardcover with clear and easy-on-the-eyes print, and the pages themselves have a nice feel and look to them, all in all a great book.
As to what is written within you merely need to look at the other reviews.
Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
Received book promptly. Book is in near perfect condition for less than new book price. Thank you. Looking forward to doing business with your again. rosemary
Rating: 5 / 5