Incredible unlikeliness of being: evolution and the making of us

Alice Roberts takes you on the most incredible journey in nature, revealing your path from a single cell to a complex embryo to a living, breathing, thinking person. It's a story that with our distant ancestors and an extraordinary, unlikely chain of events that shaped human development and left their mark on all of us.

This is your story, told as never before. Alice Roberts uses the latest research to uncover the evolutionary history hidden in all of us, from the secrets found only in our embryos and genes, to those visible in your anatomy.

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Subject(s)Science
Author(s)Alice Roberts
Age5-7, 7-11
Published2015
Published by
Shelf reference576.82 ROB
ISN/ISBN9781848664791
Direct URLhttps://www-preprod.stem.org.uk/x8uvp

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