How the Snake Lost Its Legs

*How the Snake Lost Its Legs*
	Cover of first edition, 2014
Author	Lewis I. Held, Jr.
Illustrator	The author
Subject	Evolutionary developmental biology
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication date	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,^[1]^[a] 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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