The Universe Within
A Scientific Adventure
$36.70
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2014
Summary
What links the Earth’s tilt to our body clocks? How did the creation of the Atlantic Ocean affect childbirth? What does the water inside us have to do with the deepest stretches of space?
The Universe Within is a thrilling journey from today all the way back to the Big Bang, which shows the deep connections between the human body and the universe, from Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish.
What links the birth of the moon to our body clocks? How did the cre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141041902 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141041900 |
| Author: | Neil Shubin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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Shubin is not only a distinguished scientist, but a wonderfully lucid and elegant writer; he is an irrepressibly enthusiastic teacher … a science writer of the first rank
Shubin is not only a distinguished scientist, but a wonderfully lucid and elegant writer; he is an irrepressibly enthusiastic teacher … a science writer of the first rank – Oliver Sacks
Glorious, uplifting … It tracks the very atoms in our bodies back to the Big Bang, and shows how all the molecules that comprise us have roots in the formation of Earth … What is special about the book is its sweep, its scope, its panorama * Wall Street Journal *
About The Author
Neil Shubin
Neil Shubin is a palaeontologist in the great tradition of his mentors, Ernst Mayr and Stephen Jay Gould. He has discovered fossils around the world that have changed the way we think about many of the key transitions in evolution and has pioneered a new synthesis of expeditionary palaeontology, developmental genetics and genomics. He trained at Columbia, Harvard and Berkeley and is currently a Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.
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