NEIL SHUBIN VO Like most modern monkeys, notharctus was a climber, adapted to life in the trees. The evolution of this creature, and others like it, had a huge impact on one of the features that most defines us.
About Neil Shubin. 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. Trained at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California, Berkeley, Shubin is the More about Neil Shubin. CHAPTER ONE 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. Most of the time I freeze, get blisters, and find absolutely. Need help with Chapter 6: The Best-laid (Body) Plans in Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish? Check out our revolutionary side-by-side summary and analysis. In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin 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. 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. The Communication Awards of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine awarded a $20,000 prize for excellence in communicating science to the general public to Michael Rosenfeld, David Dugan, and Neil Shubin in Film/Radio/TV on October 14, 2015 for 'Your Inner Fish'.
Neil Shubin after speaking at the University of Tulsa | |
Born | December 22, 1960 (age 58) |
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Alma mater | Columbia University Harvard University Ph.D. |
Known for | Discovery of Tiktaalik roseae |
Awards | Miller Research Fellowship[1] Guggenheim Fellowship[2] National Academy of SciencesNational Academy of Sciences 2015 Communication Award with Michael Rosenfeld and David Dugan in Film/Radio/TV for 'Your Inner Fish' |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Evolutionary biology |
Institutions | University of Chicago Field Museum of Natural History |
Thesis | The morphogenesis and origin of the skeletal pattern of the tetrapod limb(1987) |
Website | pondside.uchicago.edu/oba/faculty/shubin_n.html |
Neil Shubin (born December 22, 1960) is an Americanpaleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and Professor on the Committee of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago along with being the Provost of the Field Museum of Natural History.[3] He is best known for his co-discovery of Tiktaalik roseae with Ted Daeschler and Farish Jenkins.[4]
Biography[edit]
Raised outside Philadelphia, Shubin earned a Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard University in 1987. He also studied at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley.[5]
Shubin was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Shubin was ABC News' 'Person of the Week' in April 2006 when Tiktaalik was unveiled,[6] and made appearances on The Colbert Report January 14, 2008 and January 9, 2013.[7]
The Communication Awards of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine awarded a $20,000 prize for excellence in communicating science to the general public to Michael Rosenfeld, David Dugan, and Neil Shubin in Film/Radio/TV on October 14, 2015 for 'Your Inner Fish'.[8] List templates in sharepoint online. The awards are given to individuals in four categories: books, film/radio/TV, magazine/newspaper and online, and are supported by the W. M. Keck Foundation. Neil Shubin hosted Your Inner Fish on PBS.[9] The show was produced by Windfall Films and Tangled Bank Studios, a production company for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that makes materials available for science classroom education.[10]
He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2017.[11]
Neil Shubin Youtube
Publications[edit]
- Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. New York: Pantheon Books, 2008. ISBN978-0-375-42447-2
- The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People. Pantheon Books, New York City 2013, ISBN978-0-307-37843-9[12]
References[edit]
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- ^All Miller Fellows Sorted by Term (1987)Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Neil H. Shubin—John Simon Guggenheim Memorial FoundationArchived 2013-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^'Neil Shubin Home Page'. The University of Chicago. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- ^Daeschler, Edward B.; Shubin, Neil H.; Jenkins, Farish A. (2006-04-06). 'A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan'. Nature. 440 (7085): 757–763. Bibcode:2006Natur.440.757D. doi:10.1038/nature04639. ISSN1476-4687. PMID16598249.
- ^http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/shubin.html
- ^, Elizabeth Vargas (reporting), 'Person of the Week: Neil Shubin', ABC News, April 7, 2006, retrieved April 8, 2012CS1 maint: others (link)
- ^http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/ysa6lr/neil-shubin
- ^'2015 Communication Awards Ceremony by NAS-Webcast'. The New Livestream. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
- ^Your Inner Fish Miniseries, retrieved April 16, 2014
- ^'Classroom Resources for Your Inner Fish'. Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
- ^'American Philosophical Society: Newly Elected - April 2017'. Archived from the original on 2017-09-15.
- ^Universe within, discovering common history, New York Journal of Books
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- Lecture (presentation) by Neil Shubin about the discovery of Tiktaalik on YouTube
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