Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor
Every rock sitting on the ground has a story to tell: the story of what the world looked like as that particular rock formed.
Neil Shubin • Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Each of us contains communities of microbes as unique as our fingerprints.
Alanna Collen • 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
Whatever they were, they weren’t unique to us. Later anatomists identified this same three-bone set in other mammals—but only mammals.
Steve Brusatte • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
do strive as individuals, but we are also part of something larger than ourselves, with a complex physiology and mental life that we carry out but only dimly understand.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
organisms have evolved to have an enormous range of sizes and an extraordinary diversity of morphologies and interactions, which often reflect increasing complexity, yet fundamental building blocks like cells, mitochondria, capillaries, and even leaves do not appreciably change with body size