How the Snake Lost Its Legs

How the Snake Lost Its Legs
Cover of first edition, 2014
AuthorLewis I. Held, Jr.
IllustratorThe author
SubjectEvolutionary developmental biology
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date
2014 (2014)

How the Snake Lost Its Legs: Curious Tales from the Frontier of Evo-Devo is a 2014 book on evolutionary developmental biology by Lewis I. Held, Jr. The title pays homage to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, but the "tales" are strictly scientific, explaining how a wide range of animal features evolved, in molecular detail. The book has been admired by other biologists as both accurate and accessible.

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