The incredible unlikeliness of being : evolution and the making of us / Alice Roberts ; illustrations by Alice Roberts.

By: Roberts, Alice M [author,, illustrator.]
Language: English Publisher: London : Heron Books, 2014Description: 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781848664777 (hbk.); 184866477X (hbk.)Subject(s): Human evolution -- Popular works | Biological EvolutionDDC classification: 599.93/8 LOC classification: GN281 | .R62 2014
Contents:
BEGINNINGS: The mystery of conception and the history written in your body. HEADS AND BRAINS: From the origin of the vertebrate head to the phenomenal growth of the human brain. SKULLS AND SENSES: Laying the foundations for building a skull, and growing organs to sense the world around us. SPEECH AND GILLS: The watery origins of the voicebox. SPINES AND SEGMENTS: A pattern for life and the evolution of an S-shaped spine. RIBS, LUNGS AND HEARTS: The ribs of our ancestors and the heart and lungs of a fish. GUTS AND YOLK SACS: Links with egg-laying ancestors and fruit-eating apes. GONADS, GENITALS AND GESTATION: The anatomy of reproduction and the helplessness of human babies. ON THE NATURE OF LIMBS: Fins, limbs and ancestors. HIP TO TOE: Learning to walk before you run. SHOULDERS AND THUMBS: Climbing ancestors and unique human hands. THE MAKING OF US: Finding our twig on the tree of life. Acknowledgements. Further reading. List of illustrations. Index.
Summary: Alice Roberts gives us a new and highly accessible look at our own bodies, allowing us to understand how we develop as an embryo, from a single egg into a complex body, and how our embryos contain echoes of our evolutionary past.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-379) and index.

BEGINNINGS: The mystery of conception and the history written in your body. HEADS AND BRAINS: From the origin of the vertebrate head to the phenomenal growth of the human brain. SKULLS AND SENSES: Laying the foundations for building a skull, and growing organs to sense the world around us. SPEECH AND GILLS: The watery origins of the voicebox. SPINES AND SEGMENTS: A pattern for life and the evolution of an S-shaped spine. RIBS, LUNGS AND HEARTS: The ribs of our ancestors and the heart and lungs of a fish. GUTS AND YOLK SACS: Links with egg-laying ancestors and fruit-eating apes. GONADS, GENITALS AND GESTATION: The anatomy of reproduction and the helplessness of human babies. ON THE NATURE OF LIMBS: Fins, limbs and ancestors. HIP TO TOE: Learning to walk before you run. SHOULDERS AND THUMBS: Climbing ancestors and unique human hands. THE MAKING OF US: Finding our twig on the tree of life. Acknowledgements. Further reading. List of illustrations. Index.

Alice Roberts gives us a new and highly accessible look at our own bodies, allowing us to understand how we develop as an embryo, from a single egg into a complex body, and how our embryos contain echoes of our evolutionary past.

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