![]() ![]() ![]() He traces many of those similarities (our inner fish, bird, dinosaur, even fruit fly) over millions of years by looking at some of the physical and genetic structures we share. the bodies of these creatures are often simpler versions of ours." Although his specialty is ancient fish, he says, "the best road maps to human bodies lie in the bodies of other animals. Shubin is a paleontologist who was teaching and doing research at the University of Chicago when a shortage of professors put him in front of an "Intro to Human Anatomy" class. In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin starts about 375 million years ago and tells the story of how it is that every creature with a body is more closely related to humans than casual observation might suggest. If you're going to tell a story from the beginning, there's always the question of how far back you should go. Neil Shubin teaches biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago. ![]()
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