Neil Shubin is an American

United States

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 paleontologist

Paleontology

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, evolutionary biologist and popular science

Popular science

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 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

University of Chicago

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 along with being the Provost of the Field Museum of Natural History

Field Museum of Natural History

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. He is well known for his discovery of Tiktaalik roseae.

Biography

Shubin earned a Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1987. He also studied at Columbia University

Columbia University

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 and the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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.

Shubin appeared on The Colbert Report on January 14, 2008.

Publications

• Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body New York: Pantheon Books
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  , 2008. ISBN 978-0375424472

External links

• online reading group discussion of Neil Shubin's "Your Inner Fish"
• Video (and audio) of interview/discussion about "Wet Paleontology" with Neil Shubin and Carl Zimmer
  Carl Zimmer
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   on Bloggingheads.tv
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• Neil Shubin on The Colbert Report. Jan 14, 2008
• Neil Shubin Lecture on "Your Inner Fish" at The University of Texas