Author

Books by Neil Shubin

Neil Shubin is a paleontologist and professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as associate dean of academic affairs. He is known for leading the team that discovered Tiktaalik roseae in 2004, one of the most important transitional fossils in the vertebrate record. Shubin's research focuses on the evolutionary and developmental origins of major body plan features. In addition to Your Inner Fish, he is the author of The Universe Within and Some Assembly Required. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.