Discovering Your Inner Fish
17:13 minutes
Why do we hiccup? How are human hands similar to fish fins? Neil Shubin, evolutionary biologist and author of Your Inner Fish, takes us through the evolutionary story of how the human body evolved from our fish and reptilian ancestors.
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Neil Shubin
Neil Shubin is the author of Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA (Pantheon, 2020). He’s an evolutionary biologist and professor of Anatomy at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
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@AlexaLim22Alexa Lim was a senior producer for Science Friday. Her favorite stories involve space, sound, and strange animal discoveries.