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.

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