Neil Shubin
Born 1960
Quotes
“Humans are a timekeeping species, and much of our history can be traced to the ways we parse the moments of our lives.”
The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body, Chapter 4 “The thrill of the scientific hunt is to have an idea whose truth is hitched to predictions that take us to new places to explore, objects to discover, and data to analyze.”
The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body, Chapter 7 “Just as Darwin’s theory predicted: at the right time, at the right place, we had found intermediates between two apparently different kinds of animals.”
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, Chapter 2
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Books by Neil Shubin in order
Books by Neil Shubin in the order they were published, from The Morphogenesis and Origin of the Skeletal Pattern of the Tetrapod Limb (1987) to Ends of the Earth (2025).
- 1The Morphogenesis and Origin of the Skeletal Pattern of the The Morphogenesis and Origin of the Skeletal Pattern of the Tetrapod Limb1987
- 2Nunavut Paleontology Expeditions, 1999-2008Nunavut Paleontology Expeditions, 1999-20082008
- 3Your Inner Fish
Your Inner Fish2008 - 4The Universe Within
The Universe Within2012 - 5Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life,
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA2020 - 6Ends of the Earth
Ends of the Earth2025