Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / January 2008

I read this book this morning.  Written for a general audience,
without footnotes (though with a good bibliography), Your Inner Fish
is both enjoyable and educational.  I learned much and enjoyed his use
of imaginative examples.  I wanted more on Shubin's epic fossil find,
Tiktaalik, and some of his examples semed oversimplified, but he's
done a great job of describing the evolution of the body through a
kind of detective story that shows where we came from and why.