
Neil Shubin
Associate Dean, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
March 18, 2009 — 4:10 PMInternational House Auditorium — 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
About the Lecture Neil Shubin, Associate Dean of the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago describes how his diverse fossil findings allow him to devise hypotheses on how anatomical transformations occurred by way of genetic and morphogenetic processes. … Continued
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Neil Shubin, Associate Dean of the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago describes how his diverse fossil findings allow him to devise hypotheses on how anatomical transformations occurred by way of genetic and morphogenetic processes.
About Neil Shubin
Neil Shubin is a distinguished paleontologist whose research seeks to understand the mechanics behind the evolutionary origin of anatomical features of animals. His work focuses mainly on the Devonian and Triassic periods to understand the pivotal ecological and evolutionary shifts that occurred during that time. In 2004, after scouring the Canadian Arctic for six years, Shubin and his team unearthed the Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil “fishapod,” which, despite its fish-like features, had a neck, skull, ribs, and parts of limbs similar to land animals. This discovery represents the transition between fish and four-legged mammals that occurred over 350 million years ago.
In the News
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- NY Times Feature on New Series (NY Times)
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- 2015 Friend of Darwin Award to Shubin (Huffington Post)