Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

by Neil Shubin

Book Overview

The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth--a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that explains how the incredible diversity of life on our planet came to be.

Over billions of years, ancient fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and apelike primates evolved into humans...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101871334
• ISBN13: 9781101871331
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"