Some Assembly Required by Neil Shubin
epub | 22.13 MB | English | Neil Shubin | 2020 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Description: [b]The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth-a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that can help to determine whether our presence here is accidental or inevitable.[/b]
Over billions of years, ancient fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and ape-like primates evolved into humans that walk on two legs, talk, and write. For more than a century, paleontologists have traveled the globe to find fossils that show how changes such as these have happened. We have now arrived at a remarkable moment-archaic fossils coupled with new DNA technology have given us the tools to answer some of the basic questions of our existence: How do big changes in evolution happen? Is our presence on Earth the product of mere chance? This new science reveals a multibillion-year evolutionary history filled with...
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