A landmark book of popular science that gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years—with charts and line drawin

"The first approach can be called vertical since what is explored here is the human body's relationship to the divine, to the bestial and to the machines that i

Originally published in hardcover in 2006.

The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will c