My students cant get enough of your charts and their results have gone through the. Customers who viewed this item also viewed these digital items. This 34page guide for your inner fish by neil shubin includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 11 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections. C o n t e n t s preface ix one finding your inner fish 3 two getting a grip 28 three handy genes 44 four teeth everywhere 60 five getting ahead 81.
Shubin describes the only time he has ever found a fossilized eye. Teaching evolution and human anatomy your inner fish pbs. How many sharks, bony fish, amphibians, and reptiles have. Conversely, we can falsify our groupings by finding features inconsistent with them. Join neil shubin for a quirky examination of fossils and dna. Choose from 229 different sets of your inner fish shubin flashcards on quizlet. Keqin spent considerable time negotiating in chinese before shubin was allowed to go into the back room and see a fossil of a larval salamander with its eye intact.
Your inner fish is a 3part science series that takes a fresh look at human evolution. The pelvic bone was a real suprise because it was quite large. The author chooses to look at 375mya rocks and fossils bc approximately 365 mya, there was the general transition from creatures that lived in the ocean to living on land 6. Teeth are hard as rocks because of the high content of hydroxyapatite, seen more in teeth than in bones. The amazing discovery of our 375millionyearold ancestor 01 by shubin, neil isbn. Teeth make great fossils why are they as hard as rocks. As professor of biology and anatomy at the university of chicago, he is certainly qualified to approach this topic. Your inner fish essay example topics, sample papers. Film guide for teachers key concepts the human body contains genes and structures that we inherited from distant animal ancestors. To add your own bio click on the user control panel link in the top green navigation bar, select profile, then bio. Neil shubin pictures the research the author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks in their search for fossils because amphibians that do not look similar to fish were discovered in 365 million year old rocks, while fish without. Most of the time i freeze, get blisters, and find absolutely nothing. To neil shubin finding fish bones in the arctic circle is. To aid us in our studies for ap bio, our teacher suggested we read the book, inner fish.
Allen apib biology summer reading discussion questions. Your inner fish text pdf jacob mckay this book has been. Get the entire your inner fish litchart as a printable pdf. Simultaneously with the your inner fish documentary the analysis of the rear half of the fossil was published. A first episode, outof the 3 parts long, documentary series, your inner fish. Saffron einterview questions for professor neil shubin chris oconnor. Site specific information in the book in answering each statement. Finding our inner fish one very important human ancestor was an ancient fish. Read your inner fish by neil shubin, vintage books, random house, new york, 2009 isbn 9780307277459 2. I knew that finding this transitional fish was going to be a tall proposition. In a small mineral shop in china, shubin and his colleague gao keqin bought fossils of 160millionyearold salamanders. Trained at columbia, harvard, and the university of california at berkeley, shubin is associate dean of biological sciences at the university of chicago. By examining fossils and dna, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like longextinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Here i show a fossil as it travels from the field to the lab and is carefully prepared as a specimen.
Discussion questions for your inner fish prepared by laura guertin, penn state brandywine 2009 chapter 1 finding your inner fish 1. Yet shubins knowledge of other animals gave him the. Dive deep into neil shubins your inner fish with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion. Be sure to include the types of rocks and their location during their paleontology work in 2004. The author chooses to look at 375mya rocks and fossils bc approximately 365 mya. This study guide consists of approximately 36 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of your inner fish. In your inner fish, neil shubin writes about the evolutionary relationship between fish and tetrapods you are a tetrapod. All students will answer the 5 overview questions listed below. Fish paleontologist shubin illuminates the subject of evolution with humor and clarity in this compelling look at how the human body evolved into its present state. From the arctic circle, to china, to nova scotia, greenland and the american west shubin was ready to pack his gear an go anywhere where he might be able to. After reading the book, answer the discussion questions listed below. Shubin your inner fish pdf library of congress cataloginginpublication data. With your inner fish, professor neil shubin tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of.
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. There has never been a shortage of jokes about the moral inadequacies of. This is science writing at its finestenlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm. Neil shubin, an univeristy of chicago evolutionary paleontologist explains how we all contain over 3. Classroom materials that look at the human body for examples of evolution and provide resources for teaching evolution. To the full playlist of your inner fish, click on the link below. Teeth are as hard as rocks because of the high hydroxyapatite ca 5 po 4 3 oh content in them. Most of the time i freeze, get blisters, and find absolutely. Music in neil shubin vooc when i look at my fellow humans, i. It is more prevalent in teeth than even in bone, so teeth are less likely to decay and are more likely to be the bestpreserved part of an organisms fossil.
Nichtsdestotrotz prasentiert sich ein buch mit aktuellen. Neil shubins your inner fish is an attempt to link, through evolution, virtually every organism that has ever lived on earth. The author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks in their search. The part of the ear we can see, the flap on which we hang our glasses, is a relatively new evolutionary addition to bodies. That may not sound like buried treasure to most people, but to. Explain why the author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks in their search for fossils. That is, if there exist many traits shared by fish and people that arent seen in. First publications that came out focused on the head cranium and fore limbs fin structure and left out the rear half of the fossil. Though it lived 375 million years ago, this fish called tiktaalik had shoulders, elbows, legs, wrists. Your inner fish presents simply and straightforwardly a view of life that shows how much we are a part of this world no matter how much we want to think we are above it. Learn your inner fish shubin with free interactive flashcards.
Your inner fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. Recognizing your inner fish paleontologist neil shubin discusses his new book, your inner fish. Neil shubin and the discovery of tiktaalik are triumphs of modern science. Litcharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in your inner fish, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Evolution, including human evolution, is a story of losses and gains in both genes and anatomy. Your summer assignment including reading your inner fish by neil shubin.
This book has been optimized for viewing at a monitor setting of 1024 x 768 pixels. Confirm this on your next trip to the aquarium or zoo. Your inner fish by neil shubin is the authors personal story about his many expeditions and years of study and research, of fossils that he dug up literally all over the world. 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. Neil shubin describes how he taught a human anatomy course at the university of chicago, though his degree was in paleontology and his specialty was fish. Teeth are less likely to decay and will be the best preserved part of a fossil. Research in various scientific disciplines including paleontology, comparative anatomy. Neil shubin is the author of the bestselling your inner fish, which was chosen by the national academy of sciences as the best book of the year in 2009. Your inner fish shubin flashcards and study sets quizlet. The importance of this finding is that the evolution of fish fins into landbased limbs was not based on the. Shubin seeks out similarities primarily anatomical between humans and an array of creatures such as worms, sponges, jellyfish, and, yes, fish. This shopping feature will continue to load items when. Your inner fish evolution is one of the major themes in any general biology course. Shubins easy going style with fascinating details is very engaging.
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