What is Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin about?
In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth.
What does the phrase your inner fish mean?
“Your Inner Fish” connects our limbs, necks and lungs to a fish with limbs that crawled onto land 375 million years ago.
What kind of doctor is Neil Shubin Your Inner Fish?
What kind of doctor is Neil Shubin? Fish paleontologist. The limbs of all vertebrates follow a specific pattern.
How many pages is Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin?
256
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307277459 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 01/06/2009 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 256 |
What is Neil Shubin the narrator looking for?
Neil Shubin’s quest to understand the origins of the human body has taken him across continents and scientific disciplines — and eons back in time. He talks here about his discovery of an important fish-like fossil, Tiktaalik roseae, and the book and film it inspired.
What do we as humans if anything have in common with fish?
Fish can’t talk, but they do have gills—and that’s where our voices come from. Just like fish, human embryos have gill arches (bony loops in the embryo’s neck). But in humans, our genes steer them in a different direction. Those gill arches become the bones of your lower jaw, middle ear, and voice box.
Why did Neil Shubin write your inner fish?
This finding “gave us powerful new insights into the invasion of land by fish over 375 million years ago,” said Shubin, one of the fossil discoverers. This finding was his impetus to write the book. Shubin explains why fossils are one of the major lines of evidence to understand the human body.
What is Neil Shubin the narrator searching for?
The focus of Shubin’s research is the evolution of new organs, especially limbs. He’s conducted fieldwork in Greenland, China, Canada, and much of North America and Africa and has discovered some of the earliest mammals, crocodiles, dinosaurs, frogs and salamanders in the fossil record.
What is Neil Shubin’s job and what is his specialty?
Neil Shubin is the Robert Bensley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and associate dean for academic strategy of the university’s Biological Sciences Division.
How long is your inner fish?
In our grouping scheme, these creatures are somewhere between the “Everythings” and the “Everythings with limbs.” Map this to what we know of the rocks, and there is strong geological evidence that the period from 380 million to 365 million years ago is the critical time.
What is Neil’s job in the inner fish?
Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Your Inner Fish was named best book of the year by the National Academy of Sciences. The focus of Shubin’s research is the evolution of new organs, especially limbs.