39 Quotes by Neil Shubin

It represents the transition from water to land - the part of history that includes ourselves. When we talk about the fish's wrist, we're talking about the origin of parts of our own wrist.

It shows us the stages by which land-living animals were constructed.

It took a long time for us to figure out really the extent of what we had.

The world is filled with puzzles, all kinds of interesting questions and it's our challenge to figure them out. It's not just like this static file cabinet of things that human beings know. It's ever expanding.

We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.

With respect to the ZPA, what kind of digit develops depends on how close the digit is to the source of Sonic hedgehog.

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

Each galaxy, star, or person is the temporary owner of particles that have passed through the births and deaths of entities across vast reaches of time and space. The particles that make us have traveled billions of years across the universe; long after we and our planet are gone, they will be a part of other worlds.

Every limbed animal has the Sonic hedgehog gene.