Shubin recounting his search for a particular fossil that is evidence of the connection. But the main point in the opening installment is the relationship between human hands and fish fins, with Dr. In class today we watched the video, Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin. It’s part of a side story noting that fish testicles are near the heart, and that human ones start out there, too, before descending to their more familiar location. Part 1 has some archaeological digging, but it also includes a visit to a seafood shop. Shubin conveys his enthusiasm without leaving the rest of us behind, as he did in the book from which the title of this series is drawn.īe prepared, however, for a meandering journey. Sometimes when academics talk about what they love to study, their passion gets lost in the jargon of their fields, but Dr. But it also makes you understand, with a. Shubin examines what we share with animals of the distant past and how we became what we are. It is a series about the hunt for and the discovery of missing links between fish and land animals, for instance, or between apes and humans. In episodes titled “Your Inner Fish,” “Your Inner Reptile” and “Your Inner Monkey,” Dr. But let’s not overlook Neil Shubin, a paleontologist who makes an appealing guide to our evolutionary history on “Your Inner Fish,” a three-part exploration, based on his books, that begins on Wednesday on PBS. The club of scholars named Neil who are good writers and also telegenic is fairly small, with Neil deGrasse Tyson (see “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”) sometimes seeming to be its only member.
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