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Books like Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
The best books like Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body are The Selfish Gene, The Ancestor's Tale, and Why Evolution Is True. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin is about evolution, comparative anatomy, paleontology. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Selfish Gene reframes evolution from the organism's point of view to the gene's.
Both dig into evolution.
Read the summary → - The Ancestor's Tale
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Ancestor's Tale is Richard Dawkins's account of the history of life on Earth, told backwards: beginning with humans and traveling back in evolutionary time to meet successive ancestors at the points where different lineages join.
Both dig into evolution.
Read the summary → - Why Evolution Is True
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Jerry A. Coyne · Science
Why Evolution Is True is evolutionary geneticist Jerry Coyne's systematic case for evolution, written for readers who want a rigorous but accessible treatment of the evidence.
Both dig into evolution.
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- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Richard Dawkins · Science
The Greatest Show on Earth is Richard Dawkins's systematic presentation of the evidence for evolution by natural selection.
Both dig into evolution.
Read the summary → - Climbing Mount Improbable
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Richard Dawkins · Science
Climbing Mount Improbable is Richard Dawkins's response to the persistent intuition that complex biological structures — the vertebrate eye, insect wings, spider webs — are too improbable to have evolved by chance.
Both dig into evolution.
Read the summary → - The Song of the Cell
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Siddhartha Mukherjee · Science
The Song of the Cell is Siddhartha Mukherjee's account of how the cell — the basic unit of life — was discovered, decoded, and eventually harnessed to rebuild and repair the human body.
Shares evolution and human body with Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body.
Read the summary → - The Story of the Human Body
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Daniel Lieberman · Health
The Story of the Human Body is Daniel Lieberman's account of how evolutionary biology can explain the chronic diseases that plague modern populations.
Shares evolution and human body with Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body.
Read the summary → - A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg · Science
A Crack in Creation is Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg's account of how CRISPR-Cas9 works, what it can do, and why its possibilities should give everyone pause.
Both dig into evolution.
Read the summary → - A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · Science
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's attempt to understand the scientific story of everything — from the Big Bang to the emergence of modern humans — by spending three years talking to scientists and reading science history.
Both dig into evolution.
Read the summary → - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal · Science
Frans de Waal's central argument is that we've spent most of the last century asking the wrong questions about animal intelligence.
Both dig into evolution.
Read the summary → - Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky · Science
Behave is Robert Sapolsky's attempt to explain why humans do what they do — the violence, the altruism, the tribalism, the heroism — by working through every layer of biology that contributes to a single act.
Both dig into evolution.
Read the summary → - Cosmos
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Carl Sagan · Science
Cosmos is Carl Sagan's attempt to tell the full story of the universe and humanity's place in it — from the Big Bang to the origins of life to the rise of science as a way of knowing.
Both dig into evolution.
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Books like Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body: quick answers
What are the best books like Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body?
The best books like Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin are The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, such as evolution, comparative anatomy, paleontology.
What should I read after Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body?
A natural next read after Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body is The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Both dig into evolution. Other strong choices are The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins.
What books are similar to Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin?
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body centers on evolution, comparative anatomy, paleontology. Books with a similar feel include The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins, The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
