Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2023-02-04
Books mentioned on 98. Searching for Our Aquatic Ancestors
Neil Shubin hunts for fossils in the Arctic and experiments with D.N.
Steve Levitt discussed Your inner fish by Neil Shubin. Neil Shubin discussed Animal species and evolution by Ernst Mayr and What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Your inner fish
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin is a popular science book exploring evolutionary biology by tracing human anatomical features back to ancient aquatic ancestors.
Discussed“So reading your books was actually the first time that I ever understood what was wrong about that logic.”
Where to get it
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Animal species and evolution
Discussed“and 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 and he looked at me and said hey you like it but you were literally carrying his book”
Where to get it
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What Evolution Is
Discussed“and 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 and he looked at me and said hey you like it but you were literally carrying his book”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Your inner fish
“he's made breakthrough fossil discoveries like finding the missing link between fish and land animals now known as tiktolic and is a leading popularizer of science through his best-selling books your inner fish the universe within and some assembly required”
Passing The universe within
“he's made breakthrough fossil discoveries like finding the missing link between fish and land animals now known as tiktolic and is a leading popularizer of science through his best-selling books your inner fish the universe within and some assembly required”
Passing Some Assembly Required
“he's made breakthrough fossil discoveries like finding the missing link between fish and land animals now known as tiktolic and is a leading popularizer of science through his best-selling books your inner fish the universe within and some assembly required”
Passing Your inner fish
“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.”
Passing The universe within
“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.”
Passing Some Assembly Required
“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.”
Passing Animal species and evolution
“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.”