Animal Evolution: Genomes, Fossils, and Trees. By Maximilian J. Telford, D.T.J. LittlewoodBy Maximilian J. Telford, D.T.J. Littlewood
Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such as humans and fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges, insects, molluscs, and the many groups of worms - is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In this book, a group of leading researchers adopt a modern, integrated approach to describe how current molecular genetic techniques and disciplines as diverse as palaeontology, embryology, and genomics have been combined, resulting in a dramatic renaissance in the study of animal evolution.
Audiobook. Your Inner Fish tells the extraordinary history of the human body. Why do we look the way we do? When did we first evolve the features that we have?
It turns out that many of our most distinctive features evolved when we were still swimming in the oceans. Shubin takes readers on a fascinating, unexpected journey and allows us to discover the deep connection to nature in our own bodies.