Topic
Book review: Shubin, Neil. Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Instructions
Immerse yourself in the historical legacy of any or one or all of these scientists–Charles Darwin, Nicolaus Steno, James Hutton, Neil Shubin, Jared Diamond. Obtain any or all of the books listed below, and summarize the essence of each chapter in the book by using a reading evaluation form.
Shubin, Neil. 2009. Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. 226 pp. ISBN: 978-0-307-27745-9.
Diamond, Jared. 1999. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies. WWW. Norton and Co., New York. 494 pp. ISBN 0-393-31755-2
Darwin, Charles. 1909. The Voyage of the Beagle. Reprinted by Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading, 2004, with introduction by Catherine A. Heinze. New York. 478 pp. ISBN-10: 0-7607-5496-9.
Cutler, Alan. 2003. The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth. Published by Dutton, a member of Penguin Group, NY, USA. 228 pp.
Repcheck, Jack. 2009. The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth’s Antiquity. Published by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, NY, USA. 247 pp.ISBN 978-0-465-01337-1.
Sagan, Carl. 1996. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the
Dark. Ballantine Books, NY, USA. 457 p. NY Times Bestseller. ISBN
0-345-40946-9
Answer preview
Chapter One- Finding your Inner Fish
Based on your reading, summarize below why you think the article was written; and list major ideas that it documents
In this chapter, the author expounds on how human beings can learn about their unique evolutionary history from things like fish and worm fossils, along with the living DNA of assorted animals living in the world at present. This is because the fossils of early mammals play a huge role in regards to defining the origin of land-living animals. The author reveals that to reveal their odds of success in finding the right fossil rocks to examine for evolutionary evidence, paleontologists seek for the convergence of three things: they search in areas that have rocks of the right age, the type of rocks that preserve fossils, and rocks whose surfaces are exposed.
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