This book is a typical science catalog book. The author takes a single idea: you can see our evolutionary history in the structure of various body parts, and then devotes a chapter to each one. See your history in your hand. See your history in your eye. See your history in your jaw. And so on.
It's pretty interesting, and there's a lot of cool stuff. But about 3/4 of the way through, it starts to get repetitive and boring. Early chapters break up the monotony with stories about particular scientists and how they discovered the various things we know about fossils and DNA and developmental biology. I wish more of the book were that story.
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