Editor's Summary
17 January 2008
Fin tuning
In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin interprets human anatomy as a record of millions of years of evolution. Our hands resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of extinct jawless fish and large chunks of our genome are just like those of bacteria and roundworms. Even hangovers and hiccups are evolutionary fossils. These home truths are delivered in a winning style likely, says our reviewer, to turn more than a few high-school students into aspiring biologists.
Books and Arts: Twenty-first-century anatomy lesson
Polymath pieces together the surprising past of the human body from fins, wings, hangovers and hiccups.
doi:10.1038/451245a
