Your Inner Fish Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin‚ delves into the questions of why the human body looks the way it does. Looking at the earliest forms of vertebrate life on land and even to the earliest forms of life on Earth we can trace the evolution of the human body. The creatures‚ from millions of years ago‚ have left us with a genetic a imprint that reveals how similar we truly are to the other creatures on Earth. Shubin tells the story of evolution by tracing the skeletal features and organs
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in common than you might think with apes‚ reptiles and even fish. In the video In Your Inner Fish‚ Neil Shubin want us to see there is a connection between our bodies and the rest of life on a planet. He reveals the story of human evolution by tracing many parts of our body’s structure to many creatures that lived long ago‚ using both the fossil record and DNA evidence. Shubin showed us that our hands look like the fins of prehistoric fish‚ our skin‚ hair and teeth can be find to an early reptiles
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Your Inner Fish: A Review of Chapter 4 In Your Inner Fish‚ a book about the study of evolution in mammals‚ chapter four is dedicated to the study of teeth. Neil Shubin is explicit in his insistence that teeth are extremely important when studying evolution of the human body. He uses three main points to explain this to the reader. First‚ through the function of teeth. Then by revealing the anatomy of teeth. And finally by discussing tooth-to-tooth occlusion. Teeth are used to manipulate larger objects
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Biology- Your Inner Fish Your Inner Fish The book Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin is an interesting novel that shows the evolution of some of our major structures through time. We all know about evolution and the monkeys but we never really looked in on evolution through “our inner fish”. The book was appealing because it helps to understand how we have come to be with some of the parts of our bodies we take for granted‚ like how we got our developed smell or our advanced color vision. Your Inner Fish
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Your Inner Fish OVERVIEW QUESTIONS: 1. Why should we care about evolution? Why is it important? Evolution is the building blocks to biological science. If we did not care about evolution‚ we would not understand the concept of biology‚ or any type of science for that matter. 2. What does it mean to be human? Did your concept change after reading the book? After reading the book‚ I began to understand why my body looks the way it looks. I realized that we are all the same inside—from fish
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Kalia Espinoza Macdonald AP Biology 30 August 2010 Your Inner Fish Your Inner Fish‚ by Neil Shubin‚ is a journey into the 3.5- billion- year history of the human body. It is filled with many interesting topics covering the subject. The four topics I liked from it were: Getting a Grip‚ Handy Genes‚ Teeth Everywhere‚ and Adventures in Body Building. I feel these topics gave key information about our past. Chapter 2‚ Getting a Grip‚ talks
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prehistoric fish. This theory sounds interesting to me since fishes don’t seem to have limbs‚ do they? It can be proved from the fossil record and the biology analysis. In the film‚ Your Inner Fish‚ the geologist showed the hand bone of human and the limb fossil of the prehistoric fish. After comparing‚ it is found that they are the same set of bones which just squashed to support different functions (Cook‚ Tate and Shubin‚ 2014). Besides‚ there are also people with the similar trait of fish. In the
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Your Inner Fish The beginning of the earth was approximately 4.5 billion years ago. From the very moment that this phenomenon occurred‚ the process of evolution on this planet began. Evolution is a very complex process involving change in traits over successive generations. Being discussed will be the processes of phylogeny‚ morphology‚ and development and the specific roles each play in evolution. The evolutionary process will serve as a road map to our origins as humans and more importantly
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Dispute: All organisms with vision have similar eyes and similar vision genes. All organisms with vision do not have similar eyes. There are many groups that have similar eyes‚ but not every single organism have similar eyes. Since most of the picture processing happens in the brain‚ the function of the eye is just to capture light to carry to the brain for processing of an image. (149) Human’s camera-like eyes are similar and common to every creature with a skull. However many different types
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are all modified sharks‚ said fossil expert Neil Shubin. As Shubin makes it clear‚ evolution does not proceed in mighty anatomical jumps but to the process of gradual changes‚ transforming a gene‚ cell‚ or bone for a new purpose. In this way new species are eventually created. Albeit‚ a new species that still carries traces of it’s evolutionary predecessors‚ an inner connection between fish and humans. You can see these biological stigmata today‚ says Shubin. Our hands resemble fossil fins‚ our heads
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