Neil Shubin Quotes

We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

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.

In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.

Imagine a house coming together spontaneously from all the information contained in the bricks: that is how animal bodies are made.