RESTLESS CREATURES / THE STORY OF LIFE IN TEN MOVEMENTS

Despite the overwhelming diversity of life on earth, one theme hasdominated its evolution: the apparently simple act of moving from one place toanother. Restless Creatures is the first book for a generalaudience telling the incredible story of locomotion in human and animalevolution.Evolutionary biologist Matt Wilkinson traces this 4-billion-yearhistory, showing why our ancestors became two-le gged, how movement explains whywe have opposable thumbs and a backbone, how fish fins became limbs, how eventrees are locomotion-obs essed, and...[Read more]