{"product_id":"restless-creatures","title":"Restless Creatures","description":"A billion-year history of movement,\nfrom bacteria to Olympic athletes.\n\n\n\n'Packed with revelations, scholarly but clear, Restless Creatures carries\nyou from the kinetics of the amoeba to that of the blue whale, from the\nswim-cycle of spermatozoa, to why skipping works best on the moon. A\npop-science treat.' Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being\n\n\nDespite the overwhelming diversity of life on earth, one theme has\ndominated its evolution: the apparently simple act of moving from one place to\nanother. Restless Creatures is the first book for a general\naudience telling the incredible story of locomotion in human and animal\nevolution.\n\n\nEvolutionary biologist Matt Wilkinson traces this 4-billion-year\nhistory, showing why our ancestors became two-legged, how movement explains why\nwe have opposable thumbs and a backbone, how fish fins became limbs, how even\ntrees are locomotion-obsessed, and how movement has shaped our minds as well as\nour bodies. He explains why there are no flying monkeys or biological wheels,\nhow dinosaurs took to the air, how Mexican waves were the making of the animal\nkingdom, and why moving can make us feel good.\n\n\nRestless Creatures opens up an astonishing new perspective -\nthat little in evolution makes sense unless in the light of movement.\n\n\n ","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":32687650799701,"sku":"9781785780455N","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9781785780455.jpg?v=1598894723","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/restless-creatures","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}