Your Inner Fish
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Your Inner Fish

by

Neil Shubin

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Introduction Intro
Plot Summary Plot
Summary & Analysis
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapter 9
  • Chapter 10
  • Chapter 11
Themes
  • All Themes
  • Similarities Between All Animals Theme Icon
    Similarities Between All Animals
  • History of Life  Theme Icon
    History of Life
  • Understanding Complex Concepts Through Simple Analogies Theme Icon
    Understanding Complex Concepts Through Simple Analogies
  • Scientific Discovery Theme Icon
    Scientific Discovery
Quotes
Characters
  • All Characters
  • Neil Shubin
  • Sir Richard Owen
Terms
  • All Terms
  • Arches
  • Blastocyst
  • Choanoflagellate
  • Collagen
  • Conodont
  • Descent with modification
  • Devonian Period
  • "Eyeless" gene (Pax 6)
  • Facial nerve
  • Hedgehog gene and sonic hedgehog gene
  • Hox gene
  • Hydroxyapatite
  • Hynerpeton
  • Malleus and incus
  • Neuromast
  • Occlusion
  • Opsin
  • Organizer
  • Pax 2
  • Placazoan
  • Polychaete
  • Precambrian Era
  • Proteoglycan
  • Stapes
  • Trigimenal nerve
  • Trithledont
  • Zone of Polarizing Activity (ZPA)
Symbols
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  • Tiktaalik Roseae Symbol Icon
    Tiktaalik Roseae
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