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| Author: Neil Shubin
Publisher: Pantheon
Category: Book
List Price: $24.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 1442
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0375424474
Dewey Decimal Number: 611
EAN: 9780375424472
ASIN: 0375424474
Publication Date: January 15, 2008
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Condition: A nice clean hardcover, in excellent dj, of the 2008 Pantheon 1st edition (as pictured). No marks to text. Ready to ship.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Interesting Connections February 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you like to understand how things work, you will enjoy this book. If you do any kind of design work, you will appreciate what Nature has accomplished through the continuous development of an idea as it evolves into more complex or more broadly applicable uses. It is refreshing to see that the iterative way we improve our own creations is "normal" and that truly useful things do not pop out fully functional or featured on the first pass.
All in all, a pleasant read.
An excellent book! February 26, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very enjoyable and fantastic book, I could not put it down since it was so good! An eye opener. Easy to understand descriptons of scientific research that have been conducted up to date on fossils and a lot more of exciting information.
Our Cousins, the Frogs February 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've known for a very long time that I have evolved from a common ancestor to my fellow mammals, and the avians, and in fact, all of extant life. What this beautiful little book does is fill in some of the significant links. I've long suspected that neotonic tadpoles played an important part in our evolution... in my personal biological history! Here Dr Shubin explains hiccups as a breathing circuit inadvertently maintained by evolution all the way back to those tadpoles. I will surely never look at my cousins the frogs the same way again.
I finished this book feeling I know more about "who I am" than when I started. It's one of the most readable of biology overview books. I finished it like a novel I couldn't put down. Can't recommend it highly enough.
The real deal! February 24, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a well-written and engaging account of real science at work, by a practitioner not a journalist. The account of the discovery of the Tiktaalik fossil leads the reader into a wide-ranging discussion of how we came to be what we are. This is one of the best popular science works of recent years.
A great read on paleontology! February 23, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found this book well written and very informative. Although it seemed a little short, the author's writing style was easy to understand and at times made me feel like I was back in school science classes (which is a good thing!).
Definitely an eye-opening book that has gifted me with never looking at life the same again; or at least not clueless to the wonders of our evolution.
Thank for the great read!
Jonah W.
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