Our arms, legs, necks and lungs were bequeathed to us by a fish that lumbered onto land some 375 million years ago. Shubins easy going style with fascinating details is very engaging. Shubin joins kojo to talk about his new pbs program, your inner fish. Your inner fish summary from litcharts the creators of. Neil shubin is the author of your inner fish pantheon, 2008 and associate dean and professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the university of chicago. From pbs our arms, legs, necks and lungs were bequeathed to us by a fish that lumbered onto land some 375 million years ago. This 34page guide for your inner fish by neil shubin includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 11 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expertwritten literary analysis. View full episodes and videos of neil shubin on a quest to uncover the. How did the human body become the complicated, quirky and amazing machine it is today. The hind appendages were ready to move on land and unlike the front wheel drive hypothesis that held that the closest relatives of tetrapods emphasized chest support. Neil shubin pictures the research the author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks in their search for fossils because amphibians that do not look similar to fish were discovered in 365 million year old rocks, while fish without.
From the arctic circle, to china, to nova scotia, greenland and the american west shubin was ready to pack his gear an go anywhere where he might be able to. Start your 48hour free trial to unlock this your inner fish study guide and get instant access to the following analysis. Neil shubins your inner fish is an attempt to link, through evolution, virtually every organism that has ever lived on earth. The genetic legacy of this creature can be seen today in our own dna, including the genes used to build our hands and limbs.
In the back of the museum, in the henry crown space center, model planets hang from the ceiling and space suits lie in cases together with other memorabilia of the space program of the 1960s and 1970s. Your inner fish evolution is one of the major themes in any general biology course. As an embryo, the human head is a collection of four blobs, called arches. Your inner fish episode 2 premieres wednesday, april 16 at 109c following nature at 87c and nova at 98c as part of pbs think wednesday. This cuttingedge scientific adventure reveals a startling truth. Your inner fish part 1 ap biology ii with carmon simon.
Recognizing your inner fish paleontologist neil shubin discusses his new book, your inner fish. Simultaneously with the your inner fish documentary the analysis of the rear half of the fossil was published. Its a fantastic enlightening book that tells us why we look the way we do. Using fossils, embryos and genes, he reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree. How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today.
This film is the first episode in your inner fish, a series that originally aired on pbs and is hosted by. With neil shubin, michael berryman, jonathan bloch, tom burbacher. As professor of biology and anatomy at the university of chicago, he is certainly qualified to approach this topic. See how the genetic legacy of a fish can be seen today in our own dna. View full episodes and videos of neil shubin on a quest to uncover the origins of the human body. Neil shubin is the author of the universe within and the bestselling your inner fish, which was chosen by the national academy of sciences as the best book of the year in 2009. Hidden within the human body is a story of life on earth. He claims the human body itself contains the evidence for evolution and that we are, every one of us, just a juryrigged fish.
I was under the presumption that in the back of the. This scientific adventure story takes viewers from ethiopia to the arctic circle on a hunt for the many ways that our animal ancestors shaped our anatomical destiny. The evolution of human arms, legs, necks, and lungs can be traced back to fish that started living on land some 375 million years ago. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. That may not sound like buried treasure to most people, but to. Here i show a fossil as it travels from the field to the lab and is carefully prepared as a specimen. Your inner fish, your inner reptile, and your inner monkey. Describe at least one of these experiments and explain the significance of. Over the next two months, fossil preparators meticulously expose this fossil from the rock, discovering that it is an intermediate between fish and land animals. Yourinner fishyourinnerfishbasedonthebookbyneilshubin. This film is the first episode in your inner fish, a series.
Neil shubin is the author of two popular science books, the universe within 20 and the bestselling your inner fish 2008, which was chosen by the national academy of sciences as the best book of the year in 2009. Neil shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who codiscovered tiktaalik, the fish with hands, tells the story of our bodies as youve never heard it before. Your inner fish season 1 episode 2 rotten tomatoes. Finding your inner fish typical summers of my adult life are spent in snow and sleet, cracking rocks on cliffs well north of the arctic circle.
Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature. By examining fossils and dna, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like longextinct jawless fish, and major parts of our. In your inner fish, neil shubin writes about the evolutionary relationship between fish and tetrapods you are a tetrapod. The different body systems, such as the inner ear and. A first episode, outof the 3 parts long, documentary series, your inner fish. The genetic legacy of this creature can be seen today in our own dna. Lecture series presented by national institute of general medical sciences, the office of science education, and the national human genome research institute. Shubin then introduces the complex human head, full of nerves that seem to follow insane paths. Paleontologist neil shubin and his colleagues unearthed the fossil from the arctic in 2006. The genetic legacy of this creature can be seen today in our own dna, including. Trained at columbia, harvard, and the university of california at berkeley, shubin is the robert bensley distinguished service professor and associate dean of.
Your inner fish, hosted on pbs by fish paleontologist neil shubin of tiktaalik fame, blends fishy fables with embryology, genetics, and human anatomy. Your inner fish neil shubin with a title that could easily be a fishs inner human, this book commences from the eerie resemblance of fin bones to human arm and wrist bones seen in a 375millionyearold fossil of the fish tiktaalik roseae. Anatomist neil shubin uncovers the answers in this 3part science series that looks at human evolution. This 240page book is composed of the following eleven chapters. Come facetoface with your inner fish in this completely new take on the human body. Your inner fish is a 3part science series that takes a fresh look at human evolution. Buy or rent your inner fish movie now family video.
Your inner fish premieres wednesdays, april 923, 10. Most of the time i freeze, get blisters, and find absolutely nothing. Come facetoface with your inner fish in this completely new take on the human. The evolution of reptilelike animals into shrewlike mammals about 250 million years ago is detailed. Shubin mingles observable wonders of biology with evolutionary explanations for their origin. The genetic legacy of this evolutionary history can be seen in human dna, including in the genes involved in the development of our hands and limbs. To the full playlist of your inner fish, click on the link below. Your inner fish presents simply and straightforwardly a view of life that shows how much we are a part of this world no matter how much we want to think we are above it. Width in pixels px height in pixels px copied to your clipboard unable to copy.
Your inner fish delves deep into the past to answer questions like these. Your inner fish by neil shubin is the authors personal story about his many expeditions and years of study and research, of fossils that he dug up literally all over the world. Four nerves in particular have a circuitous route through the body that stems from the development of human ancestors. This film explores how the genetic and anatomical legacy of a fish can be seen today in the human body. Guests neil shubin paleontologist, professor and associate dean of biological sciences at the university of chicago. Many experiments were conducted during the 1950s and 1960s with chick embryos and they showed that two patches of tissue essentially controlled the development of the pattern of bones inside limbs. Finally, shubin finds a fish fossil fragment with a jaw that suggests the fish had a flat head. In your inner fish, neil shubin tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the. Season 1 dec 03, 2014 could have done with an episode or two discussing details of natural selection and mutation.