The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

In The Universe Within, Neil Shubin reveals the connection between the evolution of the cosmos and the evolution of the human body.

Just as the history of the earth is written in the rocks, so too is the universe's 14-billion-year history written in the human body. Starting at the smallest level, with our very molecular composition, Shubin explores the question of why we are the way we are, tracing the formation of the planets, the moon, and the globe of Earth through the development of the organs, cells, and genes that make up human life.

Author: Neil Shubin
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/08/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.22w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780307473271
ISBN10: 0307473279
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Space Science | Cosmology
- Science | Life Sciences | Human Anatomy & Physiology
- Science | Life Sciences | Evolution

About the Author

Neil Shubin is the author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, which was chosen by the National Academy of Sciences as the best book of the year in 2009. Trained at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley, Shubin is associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago. In 2011 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.