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It's always best not to go overboard but the discovery of Darwinius masillae is pretty darn exciting, because it represents the most complete fossil primate ever found;  the skeleton, soft body outline and even the stomach contents.   It is phylogenet ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2009 - 10:07pm - 0 attachments

A study of gene expression in chickens, frogs, pufferfish, mice and people has revealed surprising similarities in several key tissues. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biology have shown that expression in tissues with a lim ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2009 - 10:35pm - 0 attachments

... research published in PNAS by Andrew Gillis and Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago, and Randall Dahn of Mount Desert Island ... of the fossil Tiktaalik, a "fish with legs," by Neil Shubin and his colleagues in 2006. "This is another example of how evolution ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2009 - 12:31am - 0 attachments

... does the body of a professor share with a blob?” Neil Shubin answers this and other questions about the evolutionary history of our ... that relevant to what scientists do today.’ If Neil Shubin had been teaching my anatomy course, I wouldn’t have struggled to get ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 20 2009 - 3:13pm - 0 attachments

... marketing piece while knowing that Neil Shubin , Ken Miller , Olivia Judson , Dave Deamer and Sean Carroll ... we have common ancestry with fish?  Okay, you did, but Shubin can explain anything using fish and he can always do it in his funny, ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 17 2009 - 5:41pm - 0 attachments

... in his Darwin Day Book Review: Your Inner Fish, By Neil Shubin As an undergraduate student considering a research ... that relevant to what scientists do today.’ If Neil Shubin had been teaching my anatomy course, I wouldn’t have struggled to get ...

Page - Administrator - Feb 6 2009 - 1:27am - 3 attachments

Can you tell why this passage comparing Darwin's finches and humans is wrong? Many paths lay open when the finches first arrived, and the smallest flights and trials of their descendants were rewarded. That is why they have traveled in more direction ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 17 2009 - 2:28am - 0 attachments

... for this year: Your Inner Fish , by Neil Shubin - What does our anatomy tell us about our evolutionary past? Shubin is the anatomy teacher I wish I had. He's a fossil hunter and a ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Dec 1 2008 - 2:13pm - 0 attachments

... in a paper by Jason Downs, Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin in the Oct. 16 edition of Nature. Photo Credit: Kalliopi Monoyios. ... neck and skull as a rapid event," said study author Neil Shubin, PhD, of the University of Chicago and Field Museum and co leader of the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2008 - 2:00pm - 1 attachment