ISBN Your Inner Fish

Your Inner Fish

Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you’ve never heard it before. The basis for the PBS series.

By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.





About author(s)
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 associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago. In 2011 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Neil Shubin is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at [email protected] or visit prhspeakers.com.