Why do we look the way we do? What do human hands have in common with, say, the wings of a butterfly? And how are hair, mammary glands and the complex struct...

“...You will return to the ground from which you were taken, for dust you are and to dust you will return,” the Bible reminds. “It is,” agrees Neil Shubin, a...

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, c...

American evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Neil Shubin became famous throughout the world when his popular science bestseller “Inner Fish” was publis...