The Universe Within is a fascinating journey from today to the Big Bang, showing the profound connections between the human body and the universe, by Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish. What links the birth of the Moon to our biological rhythms? How does the creation of the Atlantic Ocean affect the way we reproduce? What is the relationship between the water within us and on Earth to the farthest reaches of space? The position of humanity in the universe may seem insignificant. Yet, as Neil Shubin proves, the only point where the universe, the solar system, and the planet converge is within your body. By exploring the smallest atomic structures and the largest expanses of space, Shubin reveals a wonderful truth: that within each of us lies the deepest story of all - how we and our world came to be.

Neil Shubin is a paleontologist in the great tradition of his mentors, Ernst Mayr and Stephen Jay Gould. He has discovered fossils all over the world that have changed the way we think about many of the key transitions in evolution and has pioneered a new synthesis of exploratory paleontology, developmental genetics, and genomics. He was educated at Columbia, Harvard, and Berkeley and is currently a professor at the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.

“A new, fresh approach to telling the story of life, the universe, and everything else ... very enjoyable” - Tim Radford, Guardian

“Shubin is not only a distinguished scientist, but also a wonderfully clear and elegant writer; he is a passionately enthusiastic teacher ... a first-class science writer” - Oliver Sacks

“Glorious, invigorating ... He traces the very atoms in our bodies back to the Big Bang, and shows how all the molecules that make us up have roots in the creation of Earth ... The special quality of the book is its scope, its perspective, its panorama” - Wall Street Journal

Pages: 240, Dimensions: 13x13cm