Conversations With History: Your Inner Fish with Neil Shubin

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes University of Chicago Professor Neil Shubin for a discussion of his book, Your Inner Fish, A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-year History of the Human Body. Shubin talks about his career, the interdisciplinary nature of the work of a paleontologist, and the unique skill set, scientific and personal, that is required. He also chronicles his team's discovery of the fossil Tiktaalik, the transition between fish and four-legged mammals that occurred over 350 million years ago.
Series: Conversations with History [5/2009] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 16412]

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• paleontologist
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• man
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[Beldroth100]

Is english his first language? I started his book and on the first pages it says "Unfortunately, there were no eyewitnesses; none of us WAS around". This sounds like a mistake a non-english native speaker would make and I am curious as to whether my hypothesis is correct.

[BohemianBlasphemy]

Born and raised in Philadelphia?

[Syvmana]

I had to read this book for AP biology and it makes total sense.

[lardhat]

@baileydenis1

Evidence for the ressurection (by the way, that's not how you write that) of Jesus? Bwahahaha! You crazy fuck! xD

I think you hide behind your deity so you can justify your non-belief in the transdimensional leprechaun who farted the Universe and wants you to dress in green (which is all about justifying your filthy dressing habits).

Sounds sensible.

[baileydenis1]

There is much more evidence for the life, death, and ressurection of Jesus than there is fossil evidence for evolution, yet many scientists prefer to ignore recent history (2000 years ago) to focus on fossils. I think people hide behind science so they can justify a non belief in God. If you can convince yourself that we are random chances, then we owe nothing to God, and can do whatever we want.

[TheJWKK]

at least evolution has evidences unlike fking religions

[BELIALNEW]

Goddammit you guys are fucking stupid. Try reading a book. Feel free to learn something tards. And I'm not talking about your stupid bible, harry potter or twilight. I mean something NON-fiction. Maybe even scientific!.......I'll wait while you look that word up.........

[coffinperson]

Evolution is 1000% more retarded than any religion on Earth.

[pczoide]

@coffinperson yeah... they cannot answer because the comments for the video are disabled

[shallbeagain]

Predictive power of evolution.