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Shubin is the great science translator of his era and about his own bio-evolution research, and now, a translator of geneticists whose work is so fascinating in explaining why and how are bodies became what they are. Every plant and animal on Earth today is an individual that contains a complex hierarchy of parts from organs to cells, organelles, and genes.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations This is true of pandemics and the climate. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Evolution is many times not the creation of new DNA sequences but the repurposing of existing strands as well as the delay or extension of their time of expression. This terrific book is new and exciting enough to engage a biology professor (Rob) and clear and engaging enough to fascinate a high school student (Olivia). It's mostly told through the discoveries of many scientists who found new evidence the many previously unknown mechanisms on how evolution works. 0593171578 These reflections were naturally the first to arise as people came to know modern genetics and all of its minutiae.
Shubin writes well and although I got bogged down a bit in the middle I found the ending quite exciting.
The ability to breath oxygen didn't come about because fish were trying to get onto land, but that became a very useful function to co-opt once moving onto land became a viable habitat.Neil Shubin has a unique set of gifts that readers should be forever grateful for. He offers a detailed backstage peek into a microscopic universe, unseen to the naked eye. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong.
In school I had always taken for granted certain facts, like similar amino acid sequences imply common ancestry, but this book talks about the people who made those discoveries possible, most of whom I’d never heard of, even if I knew the concepts they had discovered. He envisioned a seamless connection between art and life: the diversity of life was a form of art to him. This is true of pandemics and the climate. The way this organization came about is a story spanning billions of years that begins near the origin of the planet itself.”Neil Shubin, an eminent paleontologist and Chair of the Anatomy Department at the University of Chicago, has written a brilliant book that helps explain how we emerged and evolved as a species over the past 400 million years. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic “Haeckel scoured the animal kingdom for embryos and produced more than one hundred monographs describing and illustrating embryonic stages of diverse species. He introduces the subject in an captivating way, and has a narrative that is consistent and manages to be complet and easy to read for the non expert.This is a popular science read that takes a step further than many books on the history of life, so it is a reasonably demanding read.
Not only is he the great synthesizer of the vast array of biological sciences that contribute to our understanding of evolutionary history, but he is also is among the great clarifiers and explainers of our time. In Some Assembly Required, one encounters curious scientists, surprising histories and a clear sense of the ways in which a diversity of scientific perspectives provides a richer view of life than could any one perspective on its own. I thoroughly enjoyed Shubin's first two popular science books and I thoroughly enjoyed this one as well. The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet I friggin' love this author.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations Shubin introduces the experiments and discoveries that upended the prevailing theory that evolution is totally random and explain why the insistence that "missing links" discredit evolutionary theory is misguided. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity. We couldn’t … “Great revolutions happened when individuals combined to make ever more complex organisms, when formerly free-living creatures became parts of ever greater wholes.
For me personally, my favorite parts of his books are not the scientific ideas themselves, but the narratives that surround them: his micro biographies of the scientists who made important discoveries and his descriptions of the process by which they formulated their hypotheses and tested them and made their groundbreaking discoveries. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Someone should lock him in a room and make him write a dozen more books! This new science reveals a multibillion-year evolutionary history filled with twists and turns, trial and error, accident and invention.
Dr. Shubin's passion and excitement for his subject is evident.
Evolution did not happen sequentially; it came in leaps and bounds (and through jumping genes). Along the way in his tale he saves from the dust bin of history women and men unknown to the lay reader, but whose monumental accomplishments read as laying the foundation of our ability to study genes, DNA, and now new technology such as CRISPR, which allows gene manipulation that can cure disease.
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