Quote by Neil Shubin Download Open image ““somewhere in the Devonian rocks we should find the origin of fingers and toes.”” — Neil Shubin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
“The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The moving of the boulders was weary and painful work. We came to know every one of the stones by sight and touch, and… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
“He thinks, if you were born in Putney, you saw the river every day, and imagined it widening out to the sea. Even if… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The miniature sandscapes of ridge and valley pressed into the soles of my feet and for days after the walk I would feel a… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.” — Rachel Wolchin Copy Share Image
“Her fingers were gnarled and crooked like the roots of the oldest swamp trees. Not prissy roots of trees that grew in manicured parks… — Amber Kizer Copy Share Image
“We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So the first dinosaur bone ever found was also the first to be lost.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Habits, places and faces grew into you over time, like tree roots burrowing into stone work.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Percy figured they must be on the bottom of his foot—a rough, calloused expanse where only the most disgusting plant life grew. Finally” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“... two little patches of tissue essentially control the development of the pattern of bones inside limbs. A strip of tissue at the extreme… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“In areas close to the ZPA, where there is a high concentration of this molecule, cells would respond by making a pinky. In the… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“All the genetic switches that make fingers, arm bones, and toes do their thing during the third to eighth week after conception.” — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“My building was constructed in 1896, and the utilities reflect an odd design that has been jerry-rigged further with each renovation. If you want… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“So here is the trick to designing a new fossil expedition: find rocks that are of the right age, of the right type (sedimentary),… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Our hundreds of useless olfactory genes are left over from mammal ancestors who relied more heavily on the sense of smell to survive ...… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“The retina absorbs the light via sensitive light-gathering cells ... In humans these cells make up about 70 percent of all the sensory cells… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Some fish, for example the lungfish, have the one bone at the base. Other fish, for example Eusthenopteron, have the one bone–two bones arrangement.… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“The key to tooth development is that an interaction between these two layers of tissue, an outer sheet of cells and an inner loose… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“The molecules that allow microbes to catch their prey and hold on to them are likely candidates for the molecules that form the rivet… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.” — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Whole batteries of genes are turned on and off during fly development, and this pattern of gene activity serves to demarcate the different regions… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
