Your Inner Fish Book Review

Shubin , Neil . Your Inner Fish . London : Allen Lane , 2008

As the chairman of the Department of Anatomy , University of Chicago Shubin insists for us to trust that his discoveries are credible . In the third chapter of Your Inner Fish , he claims to have found genetic evidence for similarities between humankind and the animal kingdom . He links his archaeological discoveries with the development of limbs in human beings , and subsequently with DNA and genes , the work of the retinoic fluid and ZPA . Indeed , it is believable . Even the believers of God who have

blatantly rejected the theory of evolution may refuse to reject the fact that all living beings on earth are related , somehow or the other . After all , we also consume animals in our daily diets . What is more , the discoveries of Shubin related in the third chapter of Your Inner Fish open for scientists a new world as far as medical science and the science of genetics are concerned . Perhaps human beings would be able to treat their deformed limbs with the genes of creatures from the animal world in the near future . Everything is possible in the mind of a scientist , just as God does not deny the fact that everything is possible if we believe Him

Indeed , Shubin allows the reader 's imagination to start running wild when he starts to explain the genetic evidence for similarities Then again , as scientific research allows us to know our worth on earth better by comparing us to animals or...