![]() ![]() Every time we bend our wrists, every time we breathe with our lungs, we can thank those fish evolving in streams 375 million years ago. “The transition from life in water to life on land is not some strange event in the history of life, it’s an event that’s embedded in our bodies. And what’s amazing about that is we can trace that fish to amphibians to reptiles to primates, all the way to us. Based 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. But when you open up the fins you find bones that correspond to the upper arm, the forearm, even parts of the wrist. He has wide expertise in both fossils and biology. The author, Neil Shubin, is Professor of Anatomy at the University of Chicago and Provost of its field museum. “Let’s take a fish we found from the Arctic. A review of Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin. When we put that all together we come up with this wonderful story about how deeply we are connected to the rest of life on our planet.”Īnd Your Inner Fish comes to television starting April 9 and continuing for the next two Wednesday nights on PBS. “Within each of us, in every organ, every cell, every gene, we have over three billion years of the history of life. That’s University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin, author of the 2008 book Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. ![]() “ Your inner fish is an epic journey inside our own bodies.” ![]()
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