Your Inner Fish

Neil Shubin's account of finding Tiktaalik — the transitional fish-tetrapod fossil — and what the human body reveals about its evolutionary ancestry.

Tiktaalik discovery: a fossil fish with proto-wrist bones — a transitional form between fish and land vertebrates, predicted and found in the Canadian Arctic. 'Your inner fish': the human body as a record of evolutionary history — our hiccup reflex (an evolutionary remnant of gill breathing), our carpal tunnel (inherited limb design), our eye (wiring backward as a consequence of our evolutionary origin). A masterpiece of popular evolution science.