He has also written three popular science books: Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008), which was chosen by the National Academy of Sciences as the best book of the year in 2009 The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People (2013) and most recently, Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA, published in March 2020. In the laboratory, his group has revealed the way genes have changed during major events in evolution. Shubin has conducted expeditionary research programs in Canada, Africa, the continental United States, Asia and Greenland, which have led to new insights on the origin of major groups of vertebrates-mammals, frogs, crocodiles, tetrapods and sarcopterygian fish. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Shubin is known widely for his evolutionary work including the groundbreaking discovery of Tiktaalik roseae, the 375-million-year-old fossil considered a missing link between fish and all animals on land, including humans.
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