He trained at Columbia, Harvard and Berkeley and is currently Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Chicago. He has discovered fossils around the world that have changed the way we think about many of the key transitions in evolution and has pioneered a new synthesis of expeditionary palaeontology, developmental genetics and genomics. Neil Shubin is a palaeontologist in the great tradition of his mentors, Ernst Mayr and Stephen Jay Gould. 'Will make you think about your organs in ways you have never considered before' expressed so clearly and with such good humour' Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat 2) Your Inner Reptile covers topics including amniotic eggs, skin, teeth. 1) Your Inner Fish covers topics such as hand/wrist bones, hernias, formation of limbs, and the paleontology behind the discovery of Tiktaalik. All three are worth watching and sharing. 'An intelligent, exhilarating, and compelling scientific adventure story' The series has 3 parts: Your Inner Fish, Your Inner Reptile, and Your Inner Monkey. 'This would be Darwin's book of the year' One of the world's leading experts in evolutionary history, Neil Shubin reveals the secrets of our biology: why if we want to understand our limbs we should take a close look at Tiktaalik, the first fish capable of doing a push-up why if we want to know why we hiccup, the answer is in the way fish breathe and why it is that fish teeth are surprisingly similar to human breasts. Have you ever wondered why our bodies look and work and fail the way they do? Your Inner Fish is science writing at its finest-enlightening, accessible, and told with irresistible enthusiasm.From the Hardcover edition.Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish is the unexpected story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body what it is today - and one man's voyage of discovery in search of our origins. 'Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body' is Shubins surprise 2008 best-seller that makes many of the same points his class does: Our bodies are the result.

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.Shubin makes us see ourselves and our world in a completely new light. Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? 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.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.

Your inner fish series