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all of our extraordinary capabilities arose from basic components that evolved in ancient fish and other creatures. From common parts came a very unique construction. We are not separate from the rest of the living world; we are part of it down to our bones and, as we will see shortly, even our genes.
Neil Shubin • Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor
Anthropology
Sarah Kokernot • 1 card
An Institution for the Amateur Biologist (diybio.org).
Ed Regis • Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
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Charles Darwin • The Voyage of the Beagle
Gary Foltz
@chrysalisarkive
Babu discovered a network core shared by all of them, made up of 62 genetic switches controlling 376 genes, for a total of 492 links. This core, Babu concluded, existed in the common ancestor of all living things.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
some fourteen hundred total—a diversity exceeded only by rodents.