Read your inner fish by neil shubin, vintage books, random house, new york, 2009 isbn 9780307277459 2. Most of the time i freeze, get blisters, and find absolutely. Join neil shubin for a quirky examination of fossils and dna. As part of your 6th six weeks test average for ap biology, you will read the book and answer all questions and complete the assignment with a writing passage described below. Oliver sacks on your inner fish since the 1970 publication of migraine, neurologist oliver sackss unusual and fascinating case histories of differently brained people and phenomenaa surgeon with tourettes syndrome, a community of people born totally colorblind, musical hallucinations, to name a fewhave been marked by extraordinary compassion and humanity, focusing on the patient as. This film is the first episode in your inner fish, a series that originally aired on pbs and is hosted by anatomist and paleontologist neil shubin.
Many experiments were conducted during the 1950s and 1960s with chick embryos and they showed that two patches of tissue essentially controlled the development of the pattern of bones inside limbs. Ask and answer questions about the novel or view study guides, literature essays and more. To neil shubin finding fish bones in the arctic circle is better than finding gold. Your inner fish episode 2 your inner reptile youtube. Keep students engaged while watching with 20 focus questions plus analysis questions. Your inner fish, neil shubin writes about the evolutionary. The fossils in this world are not arranged randomly. Chapter 4 highlights teeth to once again show the deep similarities between different body parts and animals.
And that the percentage of organisms that have been fossilized is miniscule and that only certain. Research in various scientific disciplines including paleontology, comparative anatomy. In the last chapter, which expounds the logic of phylogenetic analysis, the. Chapter one finding your inner fish typical summers of my adult life are spent in snow and sleet, cracking rocks on cliffs well north of the arctic circle. Film guide for teachers key concepts the human body contains genes and structures that we inherited from distant animal ancestors. In your inner fish, university of chicago paleontologist neil shubin combines information from the worlds of paleontology, embryology, and developmental genetics to explain the evolutionary connection not only between humans and giraffes that is to say, all other mammals but also between ourselves and all vertebrates and indeed nonvertebrates. This is an accompanying student handout for part 1 of the new pbs series explore your inner fish titled your inner fish. Shubins easy going style with fascinating details is very engaging. Evolution, including human evolution, is a story of losses and gains in both genes and anatomy. Evolution is one of the major themes in any general biology course. This film is the second episode in your inner fish, a series that originally aired on pbs and is hosted by anatomist and paleontologist neil shubin. In the pantheon of favorite organsill leave it to each of you to make your listteeth rarely reach the top five. Your inner fish presents simply and straightforwardly a view of life that shows how much we are a part of this world no matter how much we want to think we are above it. Your inner fish is a 3part science series that takes a fresh look at human evolution.
Trained at columbia, harvard, and the university of california at berkeley, shubin is the robert bensley distinguished service professor and associate dean of biological. We have compiled the figures from the book into a deck of powerpoint slides for use in the classroom. All living things can be organized with smaller groups of animals comprised in bigger groups of animals. Author also reminds us that 99 percent of all species that ever existed are extinct. The same arch that formed the reptilian jaw formed the human ear. Sep 06, 2012 if any one has read this could you please answer some or all of these questions. In your inner fish, university of chicago paleontologist neil shubin combines. In this chapter, author spends most of time discussing about discovery, a fish know as tiktaalik. Get the entire your inner fish litchart as a printable pdf.
The inner chaos of the head head anatomy is not only complicated but hard to see, since, unlike other parts of the body, the tissues of the head are encapsulated in a bony box. The teacher thought she was trying to do something mean. To the full playlist of your inner fish, click on the link below. Chapter 3 your inner fish blakes honors biology site. And kurlansky points out that by the time huxley changed his mind, few people took note, and people continued in a path of overfishing. The hand is the most quintessentially human feature, and one of the most complex.
By examining fossils and dna, shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a longextinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like. Fish lack, among many other features, the hair and mammary glands that you share with polar bears. What are three major lines of evidence that are used to understand ourselves how our bodies came to be the way they are. Shubin journeys to meet our ancient animal ancestors while revealing the impact those animals have had on our bodies. Here i show a fossil as it travels from the field to the lab and is carefully prepared as a specimen. It is more prevalent in teeth than even in bone, so teeth are less likely to decay and are more likely to be the bestpreserved part of an organisms fossil. The author chooses to look at 375mya rocks and fossils bc approximately 365 mya, there was the general transition from creatures that lived in the ocean to living on land 6. Again we are shown how the ear has developed from the neuromast system of the fish to a one bone ear to the mammals three bone ear.
Neil shubin, an univeristy of chicago evolutionary paleontologist explains how we all contain over 3. Finding your inner fish in neil shubins your inner fish. However, no matter how different all of these cells seem, they all contain the exact same dna. The most interesting thing in this chapter is that our inner of the ear is descended from sharks. Neil shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who codiscovered tiktaalik, the fish with hands, tells the story of our bodies as youve never heard it before. To aid us in our studies for ap bio, our teacher suggested we read the book, inner fish. Explain why the author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million. In your inner fish, neil shubin writes about the evolutionary relationship between fish and tetrapods you are a tetrapod. Finding your inner fish what are three major lines of evidence that are used to understand ourselves how our bodies came to be the way they are. The reason that the cells are not identical is that each of these cells contains different genes that are actually active. In your inner fish, neil shubin tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. Chapter 1 unabridged the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by douglas adams duration. Early embryonic experiments in the 1800s led to the discovery of three germ layers. Your inner fish was named best book of the year by the national academy of sciences.
This chapter is essentially a long summary of the chain reaction that would occur in the populations of organisms if there were no fish. Chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6. Your inner fish delves deep into the past to answer these questions. What types of rocks are likely to contain the fossil. Smaller fish can use their teeth to scrape scales, feed on particles, or take out whole chunks of 81. In order to breathe on land, the structure of the head needed to change, and so the author was looking for evidence of such a. All students will answer the 5 overview questions listed below. This chapters overarching theme was about finding the transition of swimming fish to walking land animals. Tiktaalik is the first known creature to evolve a limb, and thus shows how an inner fish is embedded within the human body 8. This study guide consists of approximately 36 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of your inner fish.
Your inner fish below are reading questions based on your inner fish by neil shubin. As populations of fish started to decline in the north sea, huxley himself changes his mind, realizing overfishing was a reality. Width in pixels px height in pixels px copied to your clipboard unable to copy. Chapter 2 shows how the ancient tiktaalik provides information about human bodiesin particular, our limbs. Chapter 10ears discovering the connection tubes and gelfilled sacs have different functions hearing, recording our head movements, and telling us which way our head is tilted are all controlled in the inner ear the ears relation to reptiles here. Chapter eleven the meaning of it all the zoo in you my professional introduction to academia happened in the early 1980s, during my college years, when i volunteered at the american museum of natural history in new york city. Neil shubin pictures the research the author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks in their search for fossils because amphibians that do not look similar to fish were discovered in 365 million year old rocks, while fish without. Teeth are as hard as rocks because of the high hydroxyapatite ca 5 po 4 3 oh content in them. By examining fossils and dna, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like longextinct jawless fish, and major parts of our. This is beginning to sound like the russian doll set of groups, subgroups, and subsubgroups that appeared in the bozo example.
Your inner fish essay example topics, sample papers. This episode focuses on how fish evolved into land animals and. He describes the struggles and the significance of his. The author starts by describing his legendary trip to ellesmere island in nunavut, canada. What are hox genes and why are they so important, from the book. Check out our revolutionary sidebyside summary and analysis. In the beginning of the chapter, kurlansky talks about how the worlds oceans need biodiversity, a wide presence of organisms from a species, in order for life to be successful. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Chapter four teeth everywhere the tooth gets short shrift in anatomy class. You can tell towards the end of chapter 2 that she wants to kind of change her actions and write her teacher a sympathy. By examining fossils and dna, shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a longextinct jawless fish, and major parts. Neil shubin is the author of two popular science books, the universe within 20 and the bestselling your inner fish 2008, which was chosen by the national academy of sciences as the best book of the year in 2009. Why does this fossil confirm a major prediction of.
My students cant get enough of your charts and their results have gone through the. List their names and the organs that form from each. Be sure to include the types of rocks and their location during their paleontology work in 2004. Though tiktaalik is a fish, it contains the bone structure of an animal limb embedded within its fin. Adventures in bodybuilding in neil shubins your inner fish. Many people thought that fish especially were indestructible by natures bounty due to the fact that fish lay so many eggs. The focus of shubins research is the evolution of new organs, especially limbs. Explain why the author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks in their search for fossils. This chapter is about seeing that essence inside our own heads. Fish, turtles, polar bears, and humans all share some featuresheads, two eyes, two ears, and so on.
In this chapter of your inner fish, i learned that we have hundreds of different cells which gives our tissues and organs their distinct shapes and functions. My favorite chapter in the book is chapter 2, which focuses on the similarities of limb structures in various creatures. The brain is an organ that reveals a pattern of order that at first blush seems chaotic. Chapter 1 focused on finding versions of human organs in ancient rocks. Ralph spoke to himself, sounding the bass strings of delight. Discussion questions for your inner fish prepared by laura guertin, penn state brandywine 2009 chapter 1 finding your inner fish 1. Your inner fish evolution is one of the major themes in any general biology course. The emperors tomb that these soldiers have been guarding for over two thousand. Ectoderm epidermis of skin and its derivatives including sweat glands, hair follicles, epithelial lining of mouth and anus, cornea and lens of eye, nervous system, sensory receptors in epidermis. The difference between these two types of organisms in unmistakable.