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Neil Shubin’s “The Universe Within” takes an expansive approach to the question of why we look the way we do.
Shubin turns his gaze skyward, showing us how the entirety of the universe’s 14-billion-year history can be seen in our bodies and pointing out how the evolution of the cosmos has profoundly marked our own bodies.
Authors: Asier Larramendi Aand Marco P. Ferretti
Today, only three species of elephants survive—the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus).
However, these modern giants represent just a fraction of the vast and diverse order Proboscidea, which includes not only living elephants but also their many extinct relatives.
Over the past 60 million years, proboscideans have evolved and adapted across five continents, giving rise to an astonishing variety of forms.
