Your Inner Fish

About this book

One of the world's leading experts in evolutionary history, Neil Shubin reveals that if we want to understand our limbs we should take a close look at Tiktaalik, the first fish capable of doing a push-up; shows that if we want to know why we hiccup, the answer is in the way fish breathe; and explains why it is that fish teeth are surprisingly similar to human breasts.Your Inner Fish is the unexpected story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body what it is today - and one man's voyage of discovery in search of our origins.