Tucson Festival of Books

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.


Panelists
Theodore Fleming

Theodore H. Fleming is a professor emeritus of biology at the University of Miami. He is the author of several books, including his most recent title "Birds, Bats, and Blooms: The Coevolution of Vertebrate Pollinators and Their Plants....

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Neil Shubin

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....

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Books:
Birds, Bats, and Blooms
The Coevolution of Vertebrate Pollinators and Their Plants
Theodore Fleming
Nature / Environment
University of Arizona Press
January 2024
ISBN 9780816553723
254 pages
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Ends of the Earth
Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Neil Shubin
Science / Medicine / Technology
Penguin Group
February 2025
ISBN 9780593186527
288 pages
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