The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us

ISBN: 1623657989

Author: Roberts, Alice

Condition: Used

"From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself" --Richard DawkinsAlice Roberts takes you on the most incredible journey, revealing your path from a single cell to a complex embryo to a living, breathing, thinking person.It's a story that connects us with our distant ancestors and an extraordinary, unlikely chain of events that shaped human development and left a mark on all of us.Alice Roberts uses the latest research to uncover the evolutionary history hidden in all of us, from the secrets found only in our embryos and genes - including why as embroyos we have what look like gills - to those visible in your anatomy.This is a tale of discovery, exploring why and how we have developed as we have. This is your story, told as never before.