It has a flat head with eyes on top, much like early land living animals from about 365 million years ago. SHUBIN: But the first would strike you is it has scales like a fish. SHUBIN: Well, if I put tiktaalik in front of us right now, what you would see is an animal about four feet to nine feet long. SEABROOK: Tiktaalik, the link - a link between fish and land animals. SEABROOK: Listeners may remember your name, actually - I want to remind them - from your famous discovery, tiktaalik. Professor Shubin, thanks very much for speaking with us. SEABROOK: Neil Shubin joins me now to delve into our collective human past.
If you know how to look, our body becomes the time capsule that when opened tells of critical moments in the history of our planet and of its distant past in ancient oceans, streams and forests. I like to think that looking at humans is much like peering at the stars.
The star's light began the journey to our eyes eons ago, long before our world was formed. NEIL SHUBIN (Paleontologist): Carl Sagan once famously said that looking at the stars is like looking back in time. He's the author of the new book, "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year-History of the Human Body."ĭr. On today's Science Out Of The Box, we discover our inner fish with paleontologist Neil Shubin. But if you look even closer at your hand, you might catch a glimpse of your inner fish. Your hand, notably your thumb, is part of what makes you human.
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