Roberts, Alice M., <br/><br/>
The incredible unlikeliness of being :  evolution and the making of us / 
Alice Roberts ; illustrations by Alice Roberts. 
 - 392 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-379) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781848664777 (hbk.) 184866477X (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014495292 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB469239  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016775649  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human evolution--Popular works.<br/>Biological Evolution.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN281  / .R62 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>599.93/8