TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts,Alice M.
TI  - The incredible unlikeliness of being: evolution and the making of us 
SN  - 9781848664777 (hbk.)
AV  - GN281 .R62 2014
U1  - 599.93/8 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Heron Books
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Biological Evolution
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -