Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

Intimate and thoughtful Exciting [A] sweeping evolutionary history. Science

The author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish gives us a brilliant, up-to-date account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth.

This is a story full of surprises. If you think that feathers arose to help animals fly, or lungs to help them walk on land, youd be in good company. Youd also be entirely wrong.

Neil Shubin delves deep into the mystery of life, the ongoing revolutions in our understanding of how we got here, and brings us closer to answering one of the great questions was life on earth inevitableor was it all an accident?