Quotes by Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

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In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer. — Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history. — Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
But why live in these environments at all? What possessed fish to get out of the water or live in the margins? Think of — Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origi — Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancer — Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body