Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Your Inner Fish est le best seller de Neil Shubin, le livre qui l'a fait connaître au grand public. Et pour cause : c'est un très bon ouvrage de vulgarisation sur la théorie de l'évolution. A partir de la découverte d'un fossil, Tiktaalik, Neil Shubin nous emmène dans un voyage à travers les âges pour nous montrer comment notre corps est l'héritier de millions d'années d'évolution. Cet ouvrage est facile à lire et propose la synthèse de nombreux domaines des sciences, de l'anatomie à la paléontologie, en passant par la génétique, tout en rendant accessible au lecteur non scientifique les derniers développements autour de cette fameuse théorie. C'est un excellent livre pour aborder l'évolution. Je précise que la lecture de ce livre en anglais est relativement simple et ne demande pas énormément d'efforts pour qui connait un peu l'anglais.

Faaaahk yeah dude! Si ud busca callarle la boca a su amigo/a, conocido/a o familiar sobre su absurdas creencias nacas religiosas creacionistas, utilice a Hitchens, Dawkins o este libro. Muy recomendable!

Muy interesante para saber uno de los pasos de nuestra evolución con los fósiles encontrados en forma de pez.

This book is a fascinating view on the evolutionary legacy of the human body. How much we (and other related animals) owe our current body design to ancestors in the past. Evolution works by modifying what already exists, so one can usually trace the evolutionary history of species by tracing their body plans. Animals that share similar body plans tend to be related to each other. That doesn't mean similar forms (that's convergent evolution), it means they're built out of the same materials, using the same methods. The latter point is quite important, as that relates to DNA, giving us a second method for examining evolutionary history- compare the DNA of the organisms, with an eye towards the building genes. Overall, this is a fascinating book and a good example of solid science. I enjoyed reading the book, and found that it was suited to academics and general audiences. Shubin has done a very good job in making a fossil fish from the arctic turn into a fascinating story that's well worth the read. If you ever want to give a skeptic evidence on human origins and the evolution of species, this book also does that very nicely. Well done Dr. Shubin.

A well written, highly interesting and appealing description of life as we have never read before. Thanks to Neil Shubin I have understood a lot of things about the anatomy of human body and especially about the links between us and the other forms of life - ancient and recent. Though I expected to read more about Tiktaalik rosaeae, I found this book a 'must' in the literature about evolution.