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“If you really want to see why you’re built the way you are,” he invites us, “it’s time to meet your inner fish.” Looking ahead to upcoming episodes, Your Inner Reptile and Your Inner Monkey, Shubin portrays the human body as the culmination of many steps that trace a course all the way up the evolutionary tree of life. Recounting the tale of Tiktaalik’s discovery as if it were a suspenseful detective saga, Shubin shows viewers how he recovered this vital missing link, how he unearthed our long-lost “family member” from the Canadian Arctic, how he found the piece of the evolutionary puzzle that supposedly completes our story. Based on Shubin’s book of the same name, Your Inner Fish premiered on PBS this week to convince us that our bodies evolved from fish. Shubin’s three-part series appeals to this curiosity. And people are definitely interested in why their bodies malfunction. Most people are interested in how their bodies work. He claims the human body itself contains the evidence for evolution and that “we are, every one of us, just a jury-rigged fish.” Building a Body

Shubin mingles observable wonders of biology with evolutionary explanations for their origin. Your Inner Fish, hosted on PBS by fish paleontologist Neil Shubin of Tiktaalik fame, blends fishy fables with embryology, genetics, and human anatomy.