- Human anatomy, Human evolution, Nature, Nonfiction
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way?
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Warm, earnest, contemporary and spare.
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- earnestironic
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- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Neil Shubin
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Pantheon, Books on Tape
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- Dutch, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780141908632
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