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Neil Shubin makes tracing our evolutionary origins positively fascinating. Through his work in expeditionary paleontology, Shubin explains the genetic correlations between humans and the animals that inhabited our planet billions of years ago. In a wonderfully conversational tone, he uses the discovery and study of ancient fish bones to make a convincing case for the idea that we have evolved, in part, from fish.