📚 4 Books mentioned in "Searching for Our Aquatic Ancestors | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 98" of People I (Mostly) Admire

Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: Searching for Our Aquatic Ancestors | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 98
Published on February 6, 2023
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

Animal species and evolution
Buy Animal species and evolution by Ernst Mayr on Amazon
And Mayr was one of the architects of this, so he was just like a god — and I ran into him once in the hallway, and I was reading his great tome Animal Species and Evolution, which is an 800-page book on how new species form, which was very influential in the field.
Neil Shubin recounts a story about his interaction with Ernst Mayr, where he was reading Mayr's influential book 'Animal Species and Evolution'.

Some Assembly Required
Buy Some Assembly Required by Neil Shubin on Amazon
He's made breakthrough fossil discoveries, like finding the missing link between fish and land animals, now known as Tiktaalik, and is a leading popularizer of science through his best-selling books, Your Inner Fish, The Universe Within, and Some Assembly Required.
In this episode, host Steve Levitt introduces Neil Shubin, highlighting his contributions to science and mentioning his popular science books, including 'Some Assembly Required', as part of his achievements in popularizing complex scientific concepts.

The universe within
Buy The universe within by Neil Shubin on Amazon
He's made breakthrough fossil discoveries, like finding the missing link between fish and land animals, now known as Tiktaalik, and is a leading popularizer of science through his best-selling books, Your Inner Fish, The Universe Within, and Some Assembly Required.
The host, Steve Levitt, introduces Neil Shubin by highlighting his contributions to popular science, referencing his well-known book 'The Universe Within' along with others. This underscores Shubin's role as an influential science popularizer.

Your inner fish
Buy Your inner fish by Neil Shubin on Amazon
He's made breakthrough fossil discoveries, like finding the missing link between fish and land animals, now known as Tiktaalik, and is a leading popularizer of science through his best-selling books, Your Inner Fish, The Universe Within, and Some Assembly Required.
The host, Steve Levitt, introduces Neil Shubin, highlighting his role as a science popularizer and mentioning his book 'Your Inner Fish' among his other popular science works.
So reading your books was actually the first time that I ever understood what was wrong about that logic.
Steve Levitt mentions reading Neil Shubin's books, indicating that his previous encounters with Shubin's writings helped him grasp a specific evolutionary concept.
If you want to learn more about Neil Shubin’s research, check out his popular books, especially 'Your Inner Fish.'
In a brief recommendation, Steve Levitt encourages listeners to explore Neil Shubin's book, 'Your Inner Fish,' for deeper insights into Shubin’s research.