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In Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, Shubin, a paleontologist and anatomy professor, discusses his findings of Tiktaalik and uses analogies as well as his own personal experience to unfold the basic concepts of evolution. The entire book is an account of evolution, but there are specific instances as well. Evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. I would recommend this book for an introductory evolution, ecology, or environmental studies class. I think this book is a wonderful resource for the nonscientific/novice scientific community to begin to grasp fundamental evolutionary and biological systematic concepts. 

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