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Your Inner Fish

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Air date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 10:47:00 AM
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Category: Evolution and Medicine
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Description: What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales related? To understand the inner workings of our bodies and the origins of diseases, scientists turn to unexpected sources like worms, flies, and even fish. Dr. Shubin will tell the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth.

Dr. Neil Shubin is the author of Your Inner Fish (Pantheon, 2008) and Associate Dean and Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.

Lecture series presented by National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the Office of Science Education, and the National Human Genome Research Institute. For more information, visit
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/News/Meetings/EvolutionSeries2009
Runtime: 01:09:11
NLM Title: Your inner fish [electronic resource] / Neil Shubin.
Author: Shubin, Neil.
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Publisher: [Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2009]
Abstract: (CIT): What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales related? To understand the inner workings of our bodies and the origins of diseases, scientists turn to unexpected sources like worms, flies, and even fish. Dr. Shubin will tell the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth.
Subjects: Anatomy, Comparative
Biological Evolution
Phylogeny
Publication Types: Lectures
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NLM Classification: QS 124
NLM ID: 101501619
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CIT File ID: 14999
CIT Live ID: 7512
Permanent link: http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14999