Neil Shubin Your Inner Fish Summary

Your Inner Fish , by Neil Shubin is a scientific novel about human evolution and its link to prehistoric fish. The novel combines story and narrative with scientific fact, evidence, and reasoning. This creates the feeling that you are reading a story rather than a textbook. Overall, this novel tells an interesting story about finding the missing links between fish and modern humans, while explaining the reasons for evolution.
The first section of the novel focuses on a transitional species between fish and amphibians known as Tiktaalik . This creature had had the body of a fish, but unlike other fish, this creature had a flat head and eyes facing upward. This would be an evolutionary advantage for an organism transitioning between water and land. Tiktaalik also had a neck and …show more content…
Overall primates are a cornerstone of human evolution and without creatures like Lucy we would still be living in trees.
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin was one of the first scientific novels I have read and I enjoyed it extremely. The novel covered a lot of interesting topics from the science of genes and embryos to evolution and adaptations made by fish, reptiles, and mammals leading to our modern human body. The author was able to submerse the reader in his story by writing a novel that combined both scientific fact, reasoning, and evidence of the evolution of the human body with a narrative about discovering fossils
Ohlendorf 4 and described the amazing experiences Shubin and his team of scientists had along the way. My favorite part novel was when Shubin states that all organisms have the same basic brain layout. Sharing a mid brain, a front braid, and a hindbrain. I found this interesting because it means that all species on the planet from the smallest warm to modern humans are connected in one way. I found this novel to be very fascinating and gave me new insight on evolution and the history of the human body. It even made