Your Body - The Fish That Evolved
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Your Body - The Fish That Evolved

The Amazing Story of Man's Origins

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Your Body - The Fish That Evolved

The Amazing Story of Man's Origins

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Keith Harrison has a PhD in zoology from the University of Nottingham. He is a former Senior Scientific Officer at the Natural History Museum in London and a former programme manager for the UK's Natural Environment Research Council. A Fellow of the Institute of Biology, the Geological Society of London and the Linnean Society of London, Keith's fieldwork has taken him to East Africa and South America, and he has published numerous scientific articles about invertebrate and vertebrate animals. He wrote 1, 000 entries on mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians in Cambridge University Press's household reference The Cambridge Encyclopedia. He now works in the media.

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Publisher
John Blake
Year
2007
ISBN
9781857826340
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Preface
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Chapter One : The human pedigree
  6. Chapter Two : Science, Religion and Rocks
  7. Chapter Three : Evolution, Darwin and Natural Selection
  8. Chapter Four : Genes
  9. Chapter Five : Evolution in Practice
  10. Chapter six : When We Were Fish
  11. Chapter Seven : When We Were Amphibians
  12. Chapter Eight : When We Were Reptiles
  13. Chapter Nine : Mammals
  14. Chapter Ten : Mammals
  15. Chapter Eleven : ‘Hominids’
  16. Chapter Twelve : Your Body Today
  17. Chapter Thirteen : Your Body’s Problems
  18. Chapter Fourteen : Your Brain
  19. Chapter Fifteen : Future Evolution of the Human Body
  20. Copyright