American evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Neil Shubin became famous throughout the world when his popular science bestseller “Inner Fish” was published. The scientific community knows him as a strong proponent of an integrated approach to the study of evolutionary questions: combining paleontology, developmental genetics and genomics to obtain a breathtaking, multidimensional picture of the history of life. It is precisely this kind of canvas that Shubin allows us to examine in detail, telling in his new book “Assembly Required” about how scientists from different eras and countries deciphered, piece by piece, the mysteries accumulated by nature over four billion years. And about what we understand today about life on Earth. And about what they intend to find out in the future. The publishing layout is saved in a4.pdf format.