Your Inner Fish

kennyc · 10-29-2010, 07:36 AM

Anyone read this? Looks very interesting and was recommended on another forum.

http://www.amazon.com/Your-Inner-Fis...8352035&sr=1-1

From Oliver Sacks: Your Inner Fish is my favorite sort of book--an intelligent, exhilarating, and compelling scientific adventure story, one which will change forever how you understand what it means to be human.

The field of evolutionary biology is just beginning an exciting new age of discovery, and Neil Shubin's research expeditions around the world have redefined the way we now look at the origins of mammals, frogs, crocodiles, tetrapods, and sarcopterygian fish--and thus the way we look at the descent of humankind. One of Shubin's groundbreaking discoveries, only a year and a half ago, was the unearthing of a fish with elbows and a neck, a long-sought evolutionary "missing link" between creatures of the sea and land-dwellers.

My own mother was a surgeon and a comparative anatomist, and she drummed it into me, and into all of her students, that our own anatomy is unintelligible without a knowledge of its evolutionary origins and precursors. The human body becomes infinitely fascinating with such knowledge, which Shubin provides here with grace and clarity. Your Inner Fish shows us how, like the fish with elbows, we carry the whole history of evolution within our own bodies, and how the human genome links us with the rest of life on earth.

Shubin is not only a distinguished scientist, but a wonderfully lucid and elegant writer; he is an irrepressibly enthusiastic teacher whose humor and intelligence and spellbinding narrative make this book an absolute delight. Your Inner Fish is not only a great read; it marks the debut of a science writer of the first rank.

ardeegee · 10-29-2010, 05:41 PM

Great book (it was my first recommendation on the "science ebooks" thred.)

They have it at Fictonwise-- with the coupon you could get it for around $7.50 (without membership) or $6.35 (with membership) this weekend.

kennyc · 10-29-2010, 05:46 PM

Thanks Man!
Sorry for the repeat....sometimes these things don't register with me right away! added it to my wishlist at amazon....see if I can't get one of my progeny to get it for me for Christmas.

boydcarts · 10-29-2010, 06:14 PM

I concur with ardeegee. I loved the book and strongly recommend it to anyone with an interest in, or curiosity about evolutionary biology.

monkeyluis · 10-29-2010, 10:14 PM

I've wanted to read this. I'll have to check it out. I have so many science/evolution books to go through right now.

FlorenceArt · 10-30-2010, 05:39 AM

I've been wondering about this book for some time, and hesitating to buy it. The blurb certainly sounds interesting...

ardeegee · 10-30-2010, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

I've been wondering about this book for some time, and hesitating to buy it. The blurb certainly sounds interesting...

If you are going to buy the ebook, this weekend is when to buy it (assuming you aren't georestricted out of the deal.) This link:

http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b64469/?si=0

plus this coupon:

spooky2010

FlorenceArt · 10-30-2010, 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ardeegee

If you are going to buy the ebook, this weekend is when to buy it (assuming you aren't georestricted out of the deal.) This link:

http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b64469/?si=0

plus this coupon:

spooky2010

I am geo-restricted, I just checked. One of these days I'll get tired of the whole thing and do something about it, but maybe not this time and not for this book. I have enough books to read already anyway...

10-29-2010, 07:36 AM	#1
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,891 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Your Inner Fish Anyone read this? Looks very interesting and was recommended on another forum. http://www.amazon.com/Your-Inner-Fis...8352035&sr=1-1 From Oliver Sacks: Your Inner Fish is my favorite sort of book--an intelligent, exhilarating, and compelling scientific adventure story, one which will change forever how you understand what it means to be human. The field of evolutionary biology is just beginning an exciting new age of discovery, and Neil Shubin's research expeditions around the world have redefined the way we now look at the origins of mammals, frogs, crocodiles, tetrapods, and sarcopterygian fish--and thus the way we look at the descent of humankind. One of Shubin's groundbreaking discoveries, only a year and a half ago, was the unearthing of a fish with elbows and a neck, a long-sought evolutionary "missing link" between creatures of the sea and land-dwellers. My own mother was a surgeon and a comparative anatomist, and she drummed it into me, and into all of her students, that our own anatomy is unintelligible without a knowledge of its evolutionary origins and precursors. The human body becomes infinitely fascinating with such knowledge, which Shubin provides here with grace and clarity. Your Inner Fish shows us how, like the fish with elbows, we carry the whole history of evolution within our own bodies, and how the human genome links us with the rest of life on earth. Shubin is not only a distinguished scientist, but a wonderfully lucid and elegant writer; he is an irrepressibly enthusiastic teacher whose humor and intelligence and spellbinding narrative make this book an absolute delight. Your Inner Fish is not only a great read; it marks the debut of a science writer of the first rank.

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ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	Great book (it was my first recommendation on the "science ebooks" thred.) They have it at Fictonwise-- with the coupon you could get it for around $7.50 (without membership) or $6.35 (with membership) this weekend.

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kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,891 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Thanks Man! Sorry for the repeat....sometimes these things don't register with me right away! added it to my wishlist at amazon....see if I can't get one of my progeny to get it for me for Christmas.

10-29-2010, 06:14 PM	#4
boydcarts Connoisseur Posts: 85 Karma: 30 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Nook WiFi, iPad2	I concur with ardeegee. I loved the book and strongly recommend it to anyone with an interest in, or curiosity about evolutionary biology.

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monkeyluis Banned Posts: 725 Karma: 656644 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Central Florida Device: iPad "3", Kindle Touch, Kindle Fire, iPhone 4S	I've wanted to read this. I'll have to check it out. I have so many science/evolution books to go through right now.

10-30-2010, 05:39 AM	#6
FlorenceArt High Priestess Posts: 5,761 Karma: 5042529 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Montreuil sous bois, France Device: iPad Pro 9.7, iPhone 6 Plus	I've been wondering about this book for some time, and hesitating to buy it. The blurb certainly sounds interesting...

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