The ability to see the world in color is one most people take for granted. But our earliest primate ancestors lacked this ability. When and how did we gain the ability to see the world the way we do?

Prof. Neil Shubin, a pioneering University of Chicago paleontologist and evolutionary biologist and bestselling author, has been selected to give this year’s Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture. A ...

In his 2021 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture, entitled “Finding Your Inner Fish: Fossils, Genes and the History of Life,” Prof. Neil Shubin explained the story and science behind his groundbreaking ...

Paleontologist and National Academy of Sciences member Neil Shubin discusses the twists and turns of evolution, the ancient viruses we carry, and our deep links to the rest of life While reading an ...

To figure out how and when ancient fish first crawled from the ocean onto land, Neil Shubin is about to head to the mountains of Antarctica. Leaving behind family and friends for the upcoming holidays ...

When the renowned paleontologist Neil Shubin announced in 2006 that he’d discovered an ancient fossil with an uncanny resemblance to a “missing link” between fish and land-dwellers, creationists ...

WHO doubts that of any science, evolution is the best at combining curiosity with admiration? Who can fail to be impressed by the realisation that the human body is a walking, talking monument to ...

Paleontologist Neil Shubin unites the discoveries of fossils and the sciences of paleontology and genetics with his experience of teaching human anatomy into a written voyage of evolution, titled Your ...

Neil Shubin has traversed the globe in his quest to fill in the fossil record, conducting field research in sites from Morocco to the Canadian Arctic. In a few weeks, he will add Antarctica to the ...

Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik--the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006--tells the story of evolution by tracing ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in it. Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin takes us through the evolutionary ...

Paleontologist and National Academy of Sciences member Neil Shubin discusses the twists and turns of evolution, the ancient viruses we carry, and our deep links to the rest of life While reading an ...