What We Are Reading Today: Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

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Updated 19 March 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

Neil Shubin’s “Your Inner Fish” tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth.

Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria.