Judging a book by its title

I saw this book title the other day and loved it.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin

From the book's about page

Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish.

In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria.

You can read Carl Zimmer's review, here. And for my previous musings on the subject of the history of human evolution, here.