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

Published April 2, 2015 by Quercus.

ISBN:: 978-1-84866-479-1

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

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 - including why as embroyos we have what look like gills - to those visible in your anatomy. This is a tale of discovery, exploring why and how we have developed as we have. This is your story, told as never before.

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

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 - including why as embroyos we have what look like gills - to those visible in your anatomy. This is a tale of discovery, exploring why and how we have developed as we have. This is your story, told as never before.

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matthewmincher reviewed The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us by Alice Roberts

Fresh & well told

4 stars

I wasn't sure how much novelty or interest would be in this book reading it 10 years on in quite a saturated subject area.

I really enjoyed this - it flew by and was an amazingly "practical" guide to evolution and what makes us us.

Alice Roberts continues to wield her amazing ability to weave together history, archaology, biology, geology and many other ologies in an accessible precise way.

You're also left with a sense of wonder and acceptance of improbability and a connection to everyone that went before you.

I wasn't sure how much novelty or interest would be in this book reading it 10 years on in quite a saturated subject area.

I really enjoyed this - it flew by and was an amazingly "practical" guide to evolution and what makes us us.

Alice Roberts continues to wield her amazing ability to weave together history, archaology, biology, geology and many other ologies in an accessible precise way.

You're also left with a sense of wonder and acceptance of improbability and a connection to everyone that went before you.