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The order of fossils in the world’s rocks is powerful evidence of our connections to the rest of life.
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008)
Everything changes when we look at the evidence; what looks impossible actually happened.
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008)
Humans are a timekeeping species, and much of our history can be traced to the ways we parse the moments of our lives.
The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body (2013)
Just as Darwin’s theory predicted: at the right time, at the right place, we had found intermediates between two apparently different kinds of animals.
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008)
The thrill of the scientific hunt is to have an idea whose truth is hitched to predictions that take us to new places to explore, objects to discover, and data to analyze.
The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body (2013)
Our fish ancestors had internal and external nostrils, too, and to nobody’s surprise these are the same fish that have armbones and other features in common with us.
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008)
When you look into eyes, forget about romance, creation, and the windows into the soul. With their molecules, genes, and tissues derived from microbes, jellyfish, worms, and flies, you see an entire menagerie.