Neil Shubin

Tangled Banks Studio, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Neil Shubin is the bestselling author of "Your Inner Fish," "The Universe Within," and "Some Assembly Required." He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. He was host of the Emmy Award–winning PBS miniseries Your Inner Fish. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. Educated at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California, Berkeley, he lives in Chicago. His new book is "Ends of the Earth."

Awards: Guggenheim Fellow

Communities: National Academy of Sciences Communication Award; Phi Beta Kappa Science Book of the Year.

From Poles to Pollution

Authors Humes and Shubin share the Science stage to discuss the long-term effects that current environmental practices have on people and our planet, and steps we can take to protect the natural world and improve our future health and prosperity.

Science City - Main Stage (Seats 195)  
Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Science / Medicine / Technology
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Science City (following presentation)  

Panelists: Edward Humes, Neil Shubin
Moderator: Bryan Nelson

Remarkable Planet

With infectious enthusiasm and endless curiosity, biologists help us understand the world around us. Author-scientists Neil Shubin and Ted Fleming will share stories from their work — and those who have inspired them — that help us understand our planet and ourselves.

Student Union Sabino (Seats 87)  
Sun, Mar 16, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Science / Medicine / Technology
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Tent (on Mall) (following presentation)  

Panelists: Theodore Fleming, Neil Shubin
Moderator: Scott Saleska

Books:

Ends of the Earth

Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Science / Medicine / Technology
Penguin Group
February 2025
ISBN 9780593186527
288 pages

Your Inner Fish

A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Science / Medicine / Technology
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
January 2009
ISBN 9780307277459
256 pages