Dr. Neil Shubin, the author of Your Inner Fish, was recently interviewed for a CBC radio show called Quirks and Quarks.
Earlier, I shared my favorite analogies from Your Inner Fish. Dr. Shubin discusses several more examples in the interview.
Dr. Shubin has tremendous enthusiasm for the science of evolution. I particularly appreciated the last thing he said in the interview:
What we're seeing is the influence of history. This doesn't mean that the human body is not a beautiful and remarkable thing. I mean it is truly astounding what humans are able to do. But what is astounding to me, and actually quite aesthetically beautiful, is all those remarkable abilities have come about through history, through parts, pieces, and tools that are common to other living creatures on the planet.
Charles Darwin was right. There is grandeur in this view of life.
posted by Jeremy Mohn
