Neil Shubin Quotes

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• Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth…
• We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.
• We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.
• When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born…
• With respect to the ZPA, what kind of digit develops depends on how close the digit is to the source of Sonic hedgehog.
• We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.
• Each galaxy, star, or person is the temporary owner of particles that have passed through the births and deaths of entities across vast reaches of…

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