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Quotes from Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body — Neil Shubin

born 1960 United States

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The order of fossils in the world’s rocks is powerful evidence of our connections to the rest of life.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008)

Everything changes when we look at the evidence; what looks impossible actually happened.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008)

Just as Darwin’s theory predicted: at the right time, at the right place, we had found intermediates between two apparently different kinds of animals.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008)

Our fish ancestors had internal and external nostrils, too, and to nobody’s surprise these are the same fish that have armbones and other features in common with us.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Neil Shubin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.