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We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

Neil Shubin

With respect to the ZPA, what kind of digit develops depends on how close the digit is to the source of Sonic hedgehog.

Neil Shubin

Each galaxy, star, or person is the temporary owner of particles that have passed through the births and deaths of entities across vast reaches of time and space. The particles that make us have traveled billions of years across the universe; long after we and our planet are gone, they will be a part of other worlds.

Neil Shubin

We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.

Neil Shubin

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

Neil Shubin

Neil Shubin

Neil Shubin

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Born: December 22, 1960 (age 63)

Bio: Neil Shubin is an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. He is the Robert R.

Known for:

Your inner fish (2008)
The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure (2013)

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