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SUMMARY:Finding Your Inner Fish
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DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wondered why the human body looks the way it doe
 s? Why our hands have five fingers instead of six? Why we walk on two legs
  instead of four? It took more than 350 million years for the human body t
 o take shape - how did it become the amazing\, complicated\, and quirky ma
 chine that it is today?\n\nPlease join us on December 21st for an extraord
 inary year-end lecture by paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Ne
 il Shubin to consider these and other questions. Dr. Shubin will share how
  he and other scientists have designed fossil expeditions to discover anci
 ent fish with arms and legs\, how genetic analyses have been used to under
 stand how fins were transformed into limbs 375 million years ago\, and wha
 t it means to be deeply connected to the rest of life on our planet.\n\nOr
 ganized by the Ask-A-Flatiron-Scientist program\, this all-ages lecture is
  open to Simons Foundation staff and their families and particularly geare
 d to all our young budding scientists at home. We look forward to seeing y
 ou and your future scientists there! \n\nPlease register for this lecture
  via this link.\n\n***\n\nDr. Neil Shubin is the Robert Bensley Distinguis
 hed Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He's also the author o
 f two popular science books — The Universe Within: The Deep History of t
 he Human Body (2013) and the best-selling Your Inner Fish: A Journey into 
 the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008). Your Inner Fish was
  named best book of the year by the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nThe f
 ocus of Shubin's research is the evolution of new organs\, especially limb
 s. He has conducted fieldwork in Greenland\, China\, Canada\, and much of 
 North America and Africa and has discovered some of the earliest mammals\,
  crocodiles\, dinosaurs\, frogs and salamanders in the fossil record.\n\nO
 ne of his most significant discoveries\, the 375-million-year-old Tiktaali
 k roseae fossil\, is considered an important transitional form between fis
 h and land animals. The 2006 announcement of the finding received worldwid
 e media coverage and led to Shubin's being named ABC News Person of the We
 ek. He's made many other notable observations regarding the developmental 
 biology of limbs\, using his diverse fossil findings to devise hypotheses 
 about the genetic and developmental processes that led to anatomical trans
 formations. He is also committed to sharing the importance of science with
  the public\, and his lab maintains an active presence on Facebook and Twi
 tter.\n\nDr. Shubin earned his Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biolog
 y at Harvard and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.\
 n\nhttps://indico.flatironinstitute.org/event/956/
LOCATION:Webinar  (Zoom)
URL:https://indico.flatironinstitute.org/event/956/
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