![]() ![]() ![]() In the first chapter of Your Inner Fish Shubin establishes the rules of the book by introducing the reader to several things: himself and his world, the core argument of this novel, to Tiktaalik, and to the approach this novel will take to conveying Shubin’s argument. Your Inner Fish is divided into eleven chapters, with each functioning as a self-contained guide to the evolutionary path of a specific part of the human body, save for the first and last chapters. Welcome to the wonderful world of Paleontology. Is it possible that all terrestrial life be descended from a particular type of fish that lived 375 million years ago in the late Denovian Period? This question is the heart of Niel Shubin’s Your Inner Fish, in which Shubin argues that a fish that seems to be a halfway point between fish and Tetrapod, Tiktaalik, is indeed the “missing link” -so to speak- between fish and terrestrial animals. ![]()
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