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Neil shubin is a vertebrate paleontologist who discovered the fossil fish tiktaalik roseae. Your inner fish tells the extraordinary history of the human body and gives answers to some of the questions that only evolution can. Your inner fish shows us how, like the fish with elbows, we carry the whole history of evolution within our own bodies, and how the human genome links us with the rest of life on earth. By examining fossils and dna, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads ar. By examining fossils and dna, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like longextinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function. Neil shubin is the author of the universe within and the bestselling your inner fish, which was chosen by the national academy of sciences as the best book of the year in 2009. Shubins easy going style with fascinating details is very engaging. Neil shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who codiscovered tiktaalik, the fish with hands, tells the story of our bodies as. Then there are creatures like tiktaalik, with one bonetwo boneslotsa blobs.
The main characters of this science, non fiction story are. The summer after he taught this course, he discovered a fossil fish from 375 million years ago that reframes the transition. Decoding four billion years of life, from ancient fossils to dna. Neil shubin describes how he taught a human anatomy course at the university of chicago, though his degree was in paleontology and his specialty was fish. Trained at columbia, harvard, and the university of california at berkeley, shubin is the robert bensley distinguished service.
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