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

Alice Roberts

Heron Books

2015

428 páginas

14h 16m

ISBN-13: 9781623657987

The likelihood of you being here is infinitesimally small
You are the product of an extraordinary and unlikely chain of events: mammals were lucky enough to outlive the dinosaurs; a handful of two legged apes managed to survive, against the odds, on the plains of Africa; your mother met your father - and that one particular sperm fused with one particular egg. The likelihood of you being here at all is tiny. And yet it happened
This is the incredible story of you
Alice Roberts takes you on a fascinating journey around your body and into your past, using the latest research to reveal the evolutionary story hidden in all of us - from secrets found only in our embryos and genes, to those visible in your anatomy
Millions of years of evolutionary history have left traces in each of us
You just have to know where to look