Shubin traces the hand and other human features back to creatures. Your Inner Fish is science writing at its finest-enlightening, accessible, and told with irresistible enthusiasm. Paleontologist Neil Shubin discusses his new book, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year-History of the Human Body. Shubin makes us see ourselves and our world in a completely new light. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Neil Shubin is the author of two popular science books, The Universe Within (2013) and the best-selling Your Inner Fish (2008), which was chosen by the National Academy of Sciences as the best book of the year in 2009. Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik-the missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006-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. To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish. The series is both an epic saga and a modern-day detective story - by turns surprising, funny, and deeply profound.What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly?Īre breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? Using both the fossil record and DNA evidence, he traces various parts of our body's structure to creatures that lived long, long ago.
Shubin has spent much of his life studying our ancient ancestors - searching for the deep pedigree of Homo sapiens. The three-part series reveals a startling truth: Hidden within the human body is a story of life on Earth.īased on a best-selling book by evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin, this scientific adventure story takes viewers from Ethiopia to the Arctic Circle on a hunt for the many ways that our animal ancestors shaped our anatomical destiny. Your Inner Fish delves deep into the past to answer questions like these. Have you ever wondered why the human body looks the way it does? Why we walk on two legs instead of four? Why we can see in color but have a lousy sense of smell? Come face-to-face with your "inner fish" in this completely new take on the human body: You'll never look at yourself in quite the same way again! This scientific adventure story takes viewers from Ethiopia to the Arctic Circle on a hunt for the many ways that our animal ancestors shaped our anatomical destiny. Your Inner Fish reveals a startling truth: Hidden within the human body is a story of life on Earth. Your Inner Fish: With Neil Shubin, Michael Berryman, Owen Lovejoy, Tim D.
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