Paleontologist Neil Shubin discusses his new book, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year-History of the Human Body. Shubin traces the hand and other human features back to creatures ...

If you're going to tell a story from the beginning, there's always the question of how far back you should go. In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin starts about 375 million years ago and tells the story of ...

PBS has acquired a patina of cool since “Downton Abbey” and “Sherlock” arrived, but public television can’t — and probably shouldn’t — shed its stodgy image. Cases in point are a pair of nonfiction ...

Even before they’re born, all people carry genetic baggage, genes that were useful to distant, nonhuman ancestors but that are hopelessly outdated, even harmful, to humans today. Chicago scientist ...

– Based on the Best-Selling Book by Dr. Neil Shubin – ARLINGTON, VA; APRIL 3, 2013 – How did the human body become the complicated, quirky machine it is today? The answers can be traced back hundreds ...

A fish with wrists and a neck. It sounds like something out of bad sci-fi movie. But for Neil Shubin, who discovered the ancient fossil of exactly such a specimen, it turned out to be a groundbreaking ...

A celebrated scientist who has traveled the world searching for clues to the evolutionary origins of animals has been selected for the fourth annual Richard H. and Glenda G. Rosenblatt Lectureship in ...

"Your Inner Fish," a new three-part series on PBS that premieres on April 9, explores evolution and the rise of human beings. In the first episode, the show will examine a little-known fossil tying ...

Ever since Charles Darwin made his way to the Galapagos, we’ve heard a lot about that fateful moment when some previously water-bound creature pulled itself up from the slowly receding seas, took a ...

One question fascinates people like no other: Where did we come from? In a new PBS series, Your Inner Fish, paleobiologist Neil Shubin hosts a journey through time that answers the question in ...

Paleobiologist Neil Shubin digs up the fossils of extinct animals. Now television is bringing those fossils to life. In an episode of Shubin's new PBS series, Your Inner Fish, based on his ...