Neil Shubin

Neil Shubin is the author of Some Assembly Required, Your Inner Fish, and The Universe Within. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. He lives in Chicago.

How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole

Neil Shubin on Fridtjof Nansen and the Scientific Legacy of 19th-Century Arctic Exploration

February 6, 2025 By Neil Shubin

What Six-Toed Cats Tell Us About Genetic Development

Neil Shubin on What We Can Learn from Mutations

March 17, 2020 By Neil Shubin

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