Neil Shubin SIGNED The Universe Within A Scientific Adventure Science Fossils

The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure by Neil Shubin Signed by the author on the title page thus: "Best Fishes! Neil Shubin"; Allen Lane 2013 1st UK ed/1st printing, 225pp., text in acceptable condition with slight browning to pages & tiny creases to the top & bottom corners of some of the pages, old erased pencil price/date just visible to the top right hand corner of the half-title page, browning to the page extremities at the very top & bottom - browning & slight rubbing/scuffing to those at the right hand side, spine slightly cocked, bumping & rubbing to board corners, to the top, bottom & sides of boards & top of spine - noticeably heavier to the base, front board slightly marked - rear board much more so with many scratches/bumps/indentations just above the centre, likewise the rear of the dust jacket which is also rubbed, creased & worn. An acceptable+ copy. In The Universe Within, Neil Shubin, one of the world's leading experts, reveals to us the extraordinary cosmic and evolutionary adventure of our own bodies. During the past 13.7 billion years (or so) since the Big Bang, our universe has evolved, stars have formed and died and our planet congealed from the matter in space. For aeons, the earth has circled the sun while mountains, seas and entire continents have come and gone. Against this epic backdrop, humanity's place in the cosmos can look tiny and insignificant. But as Neil Shubin shows in this revelatory new book, the one place where universe, solar system and planet merge is inside your body. Shubin shows how the origin of the Moon is tied to our internal body clocks; how the vast amounts of water on Earth and inside all living creatures crossed the deepest stretches of space to us; how strange fluctuations in the orbits within our solar system have led to our irregular ice-ages; and how tiny imbalances in the chaos immediately after the Big Bang can explain why matter exists at all. Delving below the earth's surface and into the frozen Arctic, exploring the smallest atomic structures and the vast reaches of space, Neil Shubin uncovers a sublimely beautiful, almost magical truth: that in every one of us lies the most profound story of all - how we and our world came to be. Neil Shubin (born December 22, 1960) is an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and Professor on the Committee of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago along with being the Provost of the Field Museum of Natural History. He is best known for his co-discovery of Tiktaalik roseae with Ted Daeschler and Farish Jenkins. Will ship by Royal Mail 1st Class Signed for, well packaged. (£5.39/neben/shawn) .aucCounter a .aucCounter span:hover .aucHiddenCounter .aucCounterOrangeText .aucCounterBlueText Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter